Poder de agir e ideal de trabalho bem-feito entre gestores públicos de um instituto federal

Abstract

The public manager operates in the technical, strategic and political spheres; in addition to dealing with bureaucracy and various rules that guide what you do; making this work challenging and complex. This study was dedicated to analyzing the work activity of general directors of campuses at a Federal Institute in northeastern Brazil, based on the notions of work well done, prevented activities, processes of precarious work activity, and management processes institutional. The theoretical lenses used for this research come from Work Psychology from an organizational and clinical perspective. And in this one, specifically, the Activity Clinic. Thus, based on the main objective, through the application of an electronic questionnaire, the socio-professional profile of the directors was described. Subsequently, through a semi-structured interview, the meaning of a job well done for the participants was verified. To analyze the work, a group was formed and, through Clinical devices (Photo Workshop, Activity Survey and Instruction for the Lookalike), the quality of the work, the impediments and the articulation of the collective of managers were identified. After consensual validation on the main management challenges, participants developed strategies to strengthen the profession. It was found that the perspective of a job well done is related to planning and achieving goals, but when analyzing the actual work, numerous obstacles were identified that impede the feeling of it. Some impediments to this work are related to budgetary and team composition issues and the difficulty of appointing employees to take on management roles. The existence of a feeling of loneliness in the act of managing and conflicts between central management (systemic managers) and the management of teaching units (general director) was detected; these are related to the multicampi organizational model. The analysis of the activity was listed as one of the strategies for strengthening the various trades that make up the researched institution.