Representação Social da Liderança: análise em uma Organização da Administração Pública Federal

Abstract

With the development of models of public management, social issues have gained new dimension in policy. Due to the necessity of being developed human potentials in the several activities, leadership has become an important tool for projection actions and achieve several goals, becoming a relevant and fundamental grasp how this concept is part and integrates the lives of public officials. Thus, this study was developed with the aim of achieving an understanding of Leadership in an Organization of the Federal Public Administration, through the use of the theory of Social Representation, conducted with a sample belonging to a Military Unit that integrates Management Federal Public. Participants were members belonging to different frames of the same and there was no application of structured interviews, making use of the theory of Words of Free Association, the application of interviews, and Content Analysis, interpretation of data. Through this survey, we aimed to be a reliable understanding of Social Leadership Representation to these agents. With the results, we concluded the need of the use of lead in intersocial relations in the Unit studied and its consequent failure in Public Management, something relevant and meaningful planning and management in the research organization, contributing to fundamental changes in crop structure organizational, and present the need for this tool in the Public Administration as a whole, both in matters related to the management, and in the development of this scientific field of knowledge.