This dissertation focuses on the interactions between local public sector organisations and institutions in the development of performance measurement (PM) targets and indicators. The research is grounded in the performance measurement and management literature and adopts a joint new institutional and resource dependence perspective. Empirically, the research, which is qualitative and theory-building, consists of case studies undertaken in local public sector organisations in England. The iterative comparison of theory and data has enabled the investigation of a number of relevant themes. In the last decade, the British Government has placed great emphasis on the consistency of objectives, targets and indicators from national to local levels with the aim of enhancing performance, transparency and accountability, and of driving behavior. However, this research shows that the influence of several organizations and the co- existence of various PM initiatives generate confusion and overlaps locally. Moreover, in the cases considered the unmanageable number of indicators and the lack of clarity regarding the drivers and purposes of PM have led to confused massages and counter- productive approaches to the measurement and management of performance. From a theoretical view-point, the favourable comments expressed by interviewees regarding the current PM regime contrast with critics of New Public Management. Furthermore, legitimacy-seeking and efficiency-enhancing rationals have emerged as intertwined and loosely coupled. This is in opposition to what is maintained by early new institutional theorists. In line with resource dependence theory, PM systems were found to be significant components of power systems in organisations. Through the examination of the roles of PM and the investigation of relevant concepts such as 'golden thread' and performance culture, this research aims to make an impact on policy-making and to improve the ways in which targets and indicators are set and used, hence having a positive effect on the services delivered.

A gestão assumiu grande relevância na atualidade, ultrapassando tanto seu universo de origem, a empresa, quanto o campo científico, responsável pela sua consolidação enquanto corpo objetivo de conhecimento, passando a fazer parte da teia de significados culturais (GEERTZ, 2008) da sociedade contemporânea. Desse modo, o setor público que, em geral, se insere na lógica da burocracia weberiana, vem sendo invadido nas últimas décadas pelas práticas gerencialistas oriundas do setor privado, como conseqüência do boom do management no século XX. No Ministério Público do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (MP-RS) esse cenário não é diferente, sendo que, na última década, passou a adotar diferentes programas de gestão com vistas a compatibilizar seu crescimento institucional no pós-constituinte com uma maior eficiência, eficácia e efetividade no exercício de suas funções. Ademais, os membros da instituição – Procuradores e Promotores de Justiça – além de suas atribuições habituais na execução das atividades-fim, passaram a exercer, cada vez mais, funções de gestão. Sendo assim, o presente estudo versa sobre a construção de representações sociais no âmbito do MP-RS, mais especificamente àquelas relacionadas à gestão, e que se incorporam aos discursos e práticas gerenciais dos seus membros-coordenadores. Neste sentido, busca elucidar elementos simbólicos atinentes à ação gerencial no contexto estudado, bem como relacioná-los com representações circulantes na sociedade, que cada vez mais assume valores da lógica gestionária oriunda do mundo empresarial (GAULEJAC, 2007). Para tanto, a pesquisa seguiu uma orientação qualitativa, adotando-se o estudo de caso como estratégia, e as técnicas da pesquisa documental, entrevistas, observação simples e participante para a coleta de dados, o que permitiu a identificação das noções de gestão formalmente difundidas na instituição, bem como suas significações nas representações sociais dos membros-coordenadores do MP-RS. Os resultados apontam que tanto as noções difundidas como as significações dos membros-coordenadores sobre a gestão são variadas. Todavia, no geral, reforçam a idéia da gestão como um conjunto de técnicas de aplicabilidade universal, cuja utilização encontra-se em um estágio mais avançado no setor privado, se comparado ao setor público, tornando-se, dessa forma, o modelo a ser seguido. Quanto às representações sociais, identifica-se que estas são influenciadas pelas noções difundidas, mas também se constituem como mecanismos de ancoragem dos novos conhecimentos e de proteção das identidades profissionais dos membros-coordenadores. Estas representações circulantes refletem aspectos da cultura brasileira e da sociedade gestionária, os quais se combinam com características da cultura organizacional do MP-RS. / Management has assumed great relevance nowadays, surpassing its origin, the enterprise, and the scientific field, responsible for its consolidation as objective knowledge body, starting to take part in the cultural signification net (GEERTZ, 2008) of the contemporaneous society. Therefore, the public sector, which is, in general, inserted in Weber‘s bureaucracy logic, has been invaded in the last decades by the managerial practices originated in the private sector, as a consequence of the management boom of the 20th Century. In Ministério Público do Estado do Rio Grande do Sul (MP-RS) this scenario is not different, meaning that in the last decade it has started to adopt different management programs with aims to adjust its institutional growth of the post-constitutional period with higher efficiency, efficacy and effectiveness in the exercise of its functions. Moreover, the members of the institution – Public Prosecutors – beside their daily attributions in the execution of the main activities, started to develop, more and more, the management functions. Therefore, the present study is about the construction of the social representations in the ambit of MP-RS, more specifically those related to the management, and that are incorporated to the discourses and managerial practices of their coordinators-members. In this sense, it seeks to elucidate the symbolic elements attained to the managerial action in the studied context, as well as relate them to the circulating representation in the society, which is assuming more and more values of the managerial logic of the entrepreneurial world (GAULEJAC, 2007). Then, the research followed a qualitative orientation, adopting the study case as a strategy, and the document research, interview, simple and participating observation to the data collection as technique, which permitted the identification of the managerial concepts that are formally spread in the institution, as well as their signification in the social representation of the coordinators-members of MP-RS. The results point out that both the concepts and the signification of the coordinators-members about the management are varied. However, in general, they strengthen the management idea of a body of techniques of universal applicability, whose use is found in a more advanced degree in the private sector when compared to the public one, being considered, in this way, the model to follow. As to the social representation, we identify that they are influenced by the widespread notions, but they are also constituted as anchorage mechanisms of the new knowledge and of professional identity protection of the coordinator-members. These circulating representations reflect aspects of the Brazilian culture and the managerial society, which are combined with characteristics of the organizational culture of MP-RS.

Compensation is the remuneration which workers receive for their services or contributions to the organisation. The literature reviewed showed that compensation packages have relationship with workers’ motivation, job satisfaction, attraction and retention. On this basis, this study established a conceptual framework based on equity theory and used it to examine how compensation might be influencing workers’ motivation, job satisfaction, attraction and retention in the Ministry of Works and Transport of Jigawa State of Nigeria. The dependent variables considered in this study are limited to salary, allowance, gratuity, and pension as independent variables while the corresponding motivation, job satisfaction, attraction and retention are the dependent variables. The Positivist paradigm guided this empirical research; which holds the principle that knowledge is arrived at through the gathering of facts that provide the basis of laws. Thus, a quantitative research design was employed. A questionnaire was developed, pilot-tested and administered to gather data on workers’ motivation, job satisfaction, attraction and retention regarding four job compensable aspects, namely: salary, allowances, gratuity and pension. A total of 265 questionnaires were administered and 260 were collected through the early and late response technique. This represents a response rate of 98%. The respondents were selected using the stratified random sampling technique. The data collected was analysed using both descriptive statistics and structural equation modelling. The findings revealed that gratuity and allowance do positively and significantly influence workers’ motivation whereas salary and pension have no impact on workers’ motivation. Likewise, gratuity and pension do positively and significantly influence workers’ job satisfaction while salary and allowance have no impact on the job satisfaction of workers. Further, gratuity and pension do positively and significantly influence workers’ retention while salary and allowance have no impact on the retention of workers. Moreover, salary, gratuity and pension do positively and significantly influence workers’ attraction while allowance has no influence on the attraction of public construction workers in Jigawa state of Nigeria. Consequently, a framework was developed to reflect the factors that emerged for improving the motivation, job satisfaction, attraction and retention of the and equally address the pay disparity in Jigawa state. 67 respondents who participated in the main study were administered a second questionnaire to validate the framework. The subsequent findings revealed that the framework was relevant and could serve as a guide towards enhancing compensation practices and policies in the Ministry of Works and Transport. Thus, this study and its framework offer important policy recommendation to the Jigawa state government such as introducing new or improving the existing compensation packages of their workers.

During the last twenty years, Total Quality Management and Business Excellence Models [BEMs] have been very attractive to organisations as an improvement strategy, as there has been a push by governments to encourage this trend in both public and private sector organisations through the development of national quality awards. There remain difficulties in the successful implementation of BEMs, as there have been high implementation failures rates in various industrial settings. It appears that these failures have been the result of a failure to identify key influential factors that might be incorporated into organisations’ BEM implementation guidelines. Therefore, this research attempts to identify the key influential factors for the successful implementation of a BEM and then examines the role of these factors when they are incorporated with the implementation strategy of a BEM in a public sector organisation in the United Arab Emirates, the Abu Dhabi Police. The research takes a mixed-methods approach including a systematic literature review, a questionnaire survey of 300 employees and 25 interviews with top managers and BEM implementation team members in the Abu Dhabi Police. The quantitative data is assessed using descriptive and inferential statistical analysis. A paired-samples t-test is used to compare perceptions and the actual presence of key influential factors. Additionally, the correlation between these factors and the implementation efficiency of the BEM is investigated by using a Pearson’s correlation coefficient analysis. The interviews are also subjected to thematic analysis. The key findings are that there are 18 key influential factors which significantly impacted on the successful implementation of the BEM in this public sector organisation; therefore they should be considered as a whole during any such implementation. These factors can be grouped into associated stages of commitment, implementation and measurement, leading to the development of a conceptual framework to be used as a roadmap for the implementation of BEMs by public sector organisations.

Despite the continuous need to enhance the value of public services, information systems projects in the public sector still underperform due to their high velocity of change and strategic ambiguity. Diverse studies have been carried out examining ‘project capabilities’ to contribute to the efficiency of information systems project management. However, most studies of project capabilities focus heavily on the project execution that aims for successful implementation of systems. This supplier-oriented approach leads to overlooking the significance of a project owner’s benefits realisation after implementing the information systems. Moreover, this formulation of project capabilities also does not distinguish between dynamic capabilities for benefits realisation and operational capabilities for project execution. For these reasons, the realisation of a project owner’s information systems benefits has still been far from satisfactory, in addition to having a poor rate of project success. In order to address this issue, this thesis develops a more nuanced perspective on project capabilities by distinguishing the dynamic capabilities of owners from the operational capabilities of suppliers and by developing the concept of owner dynamic capabilities. This is followed by analysis of the importance of benefits management as an owner dynamic capability. The aim of this study is to contribute to a deeper understanding of why public sector information systems projects are so challenging and how the project owner’s information systems benefits can be accelerated. A content analysis method was adopted, and 10 years of National Audit Office Value-for-Money reports were analysed covering 31 information systems projects. Theoretically the concept of ‘owner dynamic capabilities’ is introduced, and the experience of UK central government information systems projects is empirically reviewed. The results bring a key implication by showing the significance of benefits management as a distinctive ‘project back-end’ owner dynamic capability. This thesis makes three main contributions to the current literature in information systems project and benefits management. First, the concept of owner dynamic capability is introduced and theorised based on a unique data set of major public sector information systems projects. Second, the importance of project back-end capability is revealed as a distinctive dynamic capability, which owners require to move their information systems investment from practical completion (the system works as expected) to beneficial use (the system delivers the expected business benefits). Third, the key findings provide the future research agenda for project management disciplines.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-04-16T14:48:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 arquivototal.pdf: 1335587 bytes, checksum: 00e064c7130a2330d113309003b8fab9 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-09-03 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / This work is part of digital impairment theme, a concept that extends what has been commonly treated in the literature as digital divide. Consisting digital impairment on three dimensions - access, informational-cognitive and behavioral also as complex relationships and interdependence between them, it was decided to investigate a specific behavior - the cyberslacking - defined by the use the Internet use an employee makes during working hours, using technological infrastructure provided by the organization with particular purposes. The aim of this research was to find out what general conditions of access favor or disfavor cyberslacking in the public sector. The place chosen to achieve the research was the Federal University of Paraiba, with employees who exercise administrative functions as the research subjects. The methodological procedures consisted on application of three questionnaires and an interview to verify mainly the levels of physical symptoms, satisfaction with the general conditions of access and cyberslacking. The results allowed us to realize that physical symptoms are indifferent to behavior, but there is a preponderance of dissatisfaction with the general conditions of access, which may influence the frequency of Internet use for personal purposes of the research participants. Free internet access in the workplace, perceived privacy and volume and pace of work were mentioned among the elements that promote access cyberslacking. It was possible to identify other aspects unrelated to access which influence behavior, especially demotivation at work. / Este trabalho insere-se na temática de limitação digital, conceito este que amplia o que vem sendo comumente tratado na literatura como exclusão ou desigualdade digital. Consistindo a limitação digital de três dimensões de acesso, cognitivo-informacional e comportamental e de relações complexas e de interdependência entre elas, optou-se pela verificação de um comportamento específico o cyberslacking definido como o uso que um empregado faz da Internet, durante o horário de trabalho, utilizando a infraestrutura tecnológica fornecida pela organização, com propósitos particulares. O objetivo geral da pesquisa foi conhecer que condições gerais de acesso favorecem ou desfavorecem o comportamento no setor público. Para a consecução da pesquisa, o local escolhido foi a Universidade Federal da Paraíba, tendo como sujeitos da pesquisa servidores que exercem funções administrativas. Os procedimentos metodológicos consistiram da aplicação de três questionários e uma entrevista, a fim de verificar, essencialmente, os níveis de sintomas físicos, de satisfação com as condições gerais de acesso e de cyberslacking. Os resultados permitiram perceber que os sintomas físicos são indiferentes ao comportamento, mas existe preponderância de insatisfação em relação às condições gerais de acesso, o que pode influenciar a frequência de uso da Internet para fins pessoais entre os participantes da pesquisa. Entre os elementos de acesso que favorecem o cyberslacking, foram citados o acesso livre à Internet no local de trabalho, a privacidade percebida e o volume e ritmo de trabalho. Foi possível verificar outros aspectos não relacionados ao acesso que influenciam o comportamento, com destaque para a desmotivação com o trabalho.

No Brasil, o início do processo de convergência às normas internacionais de contabilidade no setor público ocorre desde 2007 na União, nos Estados e nos Municípios, o que acaba gerando muitas mudanças e também muitos desafios na adoção dos novos procedimentos. Um dos novos procedimentos envolve a avaliação e depreciação do Ativo Imobilizado. Nota técnica divulgada recentemente pela STN descreve que os Entes estão encontrando dificuldades em adotar as novas regras. Nesse contexto, este estudo se propõe a responder a seguinte questão de pesquisa: como superar os desafios na implantação dos procedimentos contábeis sobre avaliação e depreciação do Ativo Imobilizado no Governo do Estado do Rio de Janeiro? Tem como objetivo geral identificar os desafios na implantação dos procedimentos contábeis sobre avaliação e depreciação do Ativo Imobilizado no Governo do Estado do Rio de Janeiro e como objetivo específico investigar e analisar a estrutura contábil e patrimonial, assim como propor soluções básicas e essenciais para a aplicação dos procedimentos contábeis. Quanto aos fins, foi realizada pesquisa descritiva e quanto aos meios, foi realizada pesquisa bibliográfica, documental e o estudo de caso, com a realização de entrevistas com os responsáveis de patrimônio e almoxarifado de 23 órgãos da Administração Direta do Estado do Rio de Janeiro. A análise dos dados coletados revela que não há integração entre o setor contábil, o setor de patrimônio e o setor de almoxarifado nestes órgãos. Os setores possuem baixo quantitativo de funcionários e estes são pouco valorizados, não existindo padronização dos procedimentos sobre gestão patrimonial. O desafio de adotar esses procedimentos ultrapassa a competência do setor de contabilidade e exige a integração dos setores de patrimônio, almoxarifado e contábil. Assim, o estudo propõe a aquisição ou desenvolvimento de um sistema integrado de controle de bens, em que a contabilidade, o patrimônio e o almoxarifado acessem os mesmos dados e possuam uma ferramenta de comunicação confiável, que possibilite a elaboração de relatórios que gerem informações úteis ao gestor e aos demais interessados. Propõe também a regulamentação dos novos procedimentos, o fortalecimento da carreira dos funcionários que atuam no patrimônio e no almoxarifado e orienta sobre a adoção de procedimentos iniciais, para o período de transição. / The beginning of the convergence process to international accounting standards in the public sector in Brazil has been taking place since 2007, in the Federal Government, States and Municipalities. It is generating changes and many challenges in the adoption of new procedures. One of the new procedures involves the evaluation and depreciation of fixed assets. Recently, STN described that some institutions are finding it difficult to adopt the new rules. In this context, this study aims to answer the following question: how to overcome the challenges in the implementation of accounting procedures for assessment and depreciation of fixed assets in the State of Rio de Janeiro? General aim is to identify the challenges in the implementation of accounting procedures for assessment and depreciation of fixed assets in the State of Rio de Janeiro. The specific aim is to research and analyze the accounting and ownership structure purpose, and to propose solutions essential basic for application of accounting procedures. As for the purpose, the research method used is descriptive and as to the means, bibliographical, documentary research and case study was conducted, performing with interviews with those responsible for equity and warehouse of 23 agencies of the direct administration of the State of Rio de Janeiro. The analysis of data reveals that there is no integration between the accounting industry, the sector equity and storeroom these organs. The sectors, which have low quantity of employees and these employees, are undervalued, and that there are no standardized procedures for asset management. The challenge of adopting these procedures beyond the competence of the accounting industry and requires the integration of equity, warehouse and accounting sectors. Thus, the study proposes the acquisition or development of integrated control system assets, in which accounting, equity and access the same data warehouse and have a reliable communication tool that enables reporting that generate useful information to manager and other interested parties. Also proposes to regulate the new procedures, strengthening the careers of employees working in equity and in the warehouse and guides on the initial adoption of procedures for the transition period.

A Contabilidade é a linguagem das finanças. O mundo tem convergindo a um processo de harmonização desta linguagem, a partir de diferentes dialetos, de diferentes nacionalidades, à conversão a padrões internacionais, inclusive de Contabilidade Pública. Este processo, no Brasil, tem caminhado a passos largos, o quê requer a devida atenção. Neste sentido, esta pesquisa teve por objetivo avaliar a percepção de servidores públicos sobre os desafios para o sucesso da convergência aos padrões internacionais da Contabilidade Aplicada ao Setor Público. Para isto foi realizada uma pesquisa exploratória, com a adoção do método quanti-qualitativo no tratamento dos dados. Os dados foram obtidos através de um questionário auto-aplicável aos servidores da Controladoria Geral do Município do Rio de Janeiro, a Auditores do Tribunal de Contas do Município do Rio de Janeiro e a alunos do curso de Contabilidade Pública inseridos na base de dados do Conselho Regional de Contabilidade do Rio de Janeiro, o que gerou uma amostra de 93 servidores respondentes. Os resultados sugerem que na percepção dos respondentes o maior desafio a ser superado para o sucesso da convergência, é a capacitação dos servidores através da divulgação e da educação continuada, a respeito do que é a convergência, prazos, e impacto na rotina de trabalho, sejam dos servidores que atuam diretamente com a Contabilidade Pública como daqueles que suprem a Contabilidade de informações para a realização de sua missão, resultado corroborado pelas diretrizes do CFC para promover o desenvolvimento conceitual da Contabilidade Aplicada ao Setor Público no Brasil e estudos como o de Cardoso, Souza e Almeida (2006) que salienta a necessidade da educação continuada, para os já formados. Os resultados sugerem também, como Wesberry (1995) e Silva (2008), desafios culturais, como a fragilidade do uso exclusivo do enfoque patrimonial para a Contabilidade Pública. Sugerem ainda, desafios na mensuração, avaliação e disclosure dos Bens de Uso Comum do Povo pela magnitude e novidade do tema. / Accounting is the language of finance. The world is converging on a process of harmonization of the language, from different dialects, different nationalities, the conversion to international standards, including the Public Accounts. This process, in Brazil, has been moving apace, what requires attention. Therefore, this study aimed to evaluate the perception of public servants on the challenges to the success of international convergence of accounting standards applied to the Public Sector. For this exploratory research was conducted, with the adoption of the method in quantitative and qualitative data analysis. Data were collected through a self-administered questionnaire to the servers of the Comptroller General of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro, the Court of Auditors of the Accounts of the Municipality of Rio de Janeiro and the students of Public Accounts entered in the database of the Regional Council Accounting of Rio de Janeiro, which generated a sample of 93 respondents servers. The results suggest that the perception of respondents the biggest challenge to be overcome for successful convergence, is the training of servers through the dissemination and continuing education, about what is convergence, deadlines, and impact on work routine, are the servers that work directly with the Public Accounts as those that supply the accounting information to carry out its mission, a result corroborated by the CFC guidelines to promote the conceptual development of the Public Sector Accounting Applied in Brazil and studies, such as Cardoso , Almeida and Souza (2006) which stresses the need for continuing education for those already trained. The results also suggest, as Wesberry (1995) and Silva (2008), cultural challenges, such as the fragility of the exclusive use of the asset approach to the Public Accounts. Suggest further challenges in the measurement, evaluation and disclosure of Goods Common Use of the People by the magnitude and novelty of the subject.

Este trabalho apresenta os resultados de um estudo de caso (MINAYO, 1993, 2010; YIN, 2010), de abordagem qualitativa, realizado junto à Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul, com o objetivo de identificar, sob a perspectiva de rito de passagem, como se dá a socialização dos ingressantes técnico-administrativos e que ações institucionais poderiam contribuir para consolidar o vínculo desses servidores. A pesquisa orientou-se pelo pressuposto de que as emoções afloradas durante a socialização de ingressantes na Administração Pública podem tanto contribuir quanto prejudicar a formação de vínculos afetivos, impactando, positiva ou negativamente, a identificação com a organização e o comprometimento com o trabalho. Assim, a socialização é contemplada como um reflexo da relação indissociável e interdependente entre indivíduo e sociedade, e a realidade social como um produto da socialização e da interação humana, em consonância com as concepções de Berger e Luckmann (2011), Cavedon (1990, 2000, 2010) e Setton (2010, 2011). Já a mudança de status, decorrente do ingresso no setor público, é tratada como um rito de passagem constituído de três fases, separação, margem e agregação, conforme teoriza Van Gennep (2011). Os dados foram coletados por meio de pesquisa documental, diários de campo, observação participante, questionários abertos, aplicados a ingressantes do concurso 2010, e entrevistas realizadas com servidores “antigos”, com apoio de um roteiro semi-estruturado. Os resultados sugerem que a fase de margem, correspondente ao estágio probatório de três anos, não é legitimada como um período de aprendizado, e, consequentemente, não há clara definição dos papéis de socializados (ingressantes) e socializadores (“antigos”). Existem expectativas de que os ingressantes adotem uma postura de humildade e deferência em relação aos “antigos”, e de que estes, por sua vez, assumam responsabilidades em relação ao aprendizado dos recém-chegados. Entretanto, em decorrência da indefinição de papéis, essas teatralizações, que são próprias da fase de margem, tendem a ser negligenciadas, causando conflitos que prejudicam o trabalho em equipe e o andamento do trabalho. A importação da lógica de mercado no serviço público também é evidenciada como origem de muitas das dificuldades identificadas, apontando para a necessidade de direcionar esforços visando uma conscientização nesse sentido. Como possível solução para os problemas levantados, sugere-se a realização de procedimentos ritualizados que reforcem o caráter de aprendizado da fase liminar, conduzidos por facilitadores designados e capacitados para tanto, que atuem como mediadores legitimados, em nível de unidade. Por fim, conclui-se que investimentos na socialização de recém-concursados são primordiais, podendo repercutir em maior comprometimento com o trabalho e melhores resultados em relação aos objetivos institucionais do que a implementação de mecanismos coercitivos de controle e de gestão do desempenho, característicos do modelo gerencialista que vêm se consolidando na administração pública desde o Plano Diretor da Reforma do Aparelho do Estado de 1995. / This work presents the results of a qualitative case study (MINAYO, 1993, 2010; YIN, 2010) that took place at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul with the aim of identifying, according to the perspective of rite of passage, how the socialization of the administrative staff is carried out and what institutional actions may contribute to the consolidation of organizational bonding. The research had its starting point in the assumption that newcomers who join the public sector experience emotions, triggered by socialization, that have the potential to either enhance or impair bonding processes, impacting identification with the organization and commitment to work in a positive or negative way. Thus, socialization is seen as a reflection of the inseparable and interdependent relation between individual and society whereas social reality is considered a by-product of socialization and human interaction, according to the conceptions of Berger and Luckmann (2011), Cavedon (1990, 2000, 2010) and Setton (2010, 2011). In its turn, the change of status caused by getting a job in the public sector is treated as a rite of passage that can be divided into three phases, separation, margin and aggregation, as theorized by Van Gennep (2011). The data was collected by means of documentary research, field journals, participant observation, open questionnaire applied to the newcomers of the 2010 selection process, and semi-structured interviews with senior level staff members. The results suggest that the margin phase, which corresponds to the three-year probationary period, is not legitimized as a learning period, therefore there‟s no clarity with regard to the different roles of “persons being socialized” and “agents of socialization”, to be respectively assumed by the newcomers and the senior level staff members. The newcomers should adopt a humble and respectful attitude towards their senior level colleagues, who, in turn, should undertake certain responsibilities in the learning process of the former. However, due to the lack of clearly defined roles and responsibilities, these expected theatrical-like behaviors tend to be neglected, leading to conflicts that disrupt teamwork and hinder the workflow. There‟s also evidence that the adoption of the market logic in the public sector may be the cause of many of the identified difficulties, which points to the need of directing efforts to raise awareness about this issue. A possible solution to the problems addressed by this research is the institutionalization of ritualized procedures designed to reinforce the learning-focused nature of the margin phase and conducted by properly trained facilitators, appointed to act as legitimate mediators in each decentralized unit. Finally, it is concluded that investments in the socialization of newcomers are essential and may yield stronger commitment to work and better results for the institution than the implementation of coercive mechanisms of performance management associated with the managerial model that has been consolidating itself in the public administration since the public sector reform of 1995.

A presente pesquisa aborda o estudo da formação de estratégias na Infraero, empresa pública brasileira responsável pela administração de aeroportos. Para tanto, foi realizado um estudo de caso que contempla a análise de um tempo histórico da estatal até os dias atuais, entre 1995 e 2016, utilizando-se a abordagem teórica de Henry Mintzberg, de estratégias emergentes e deliberadas, e de Baum e Dutton (1997) e Eisenhardt e Brown (1997), sobre a imersão estratégica e a busca de uma maior contextualização da estratégia. Através da pesquisa realizada, verificou-se que o desalinhamento entre as ações da empresa, o setor aéreo e as políticas de governo planejadas para a Infraero é o principal fator que vem limitando as ações estratégicas da estatal, prejudicando seus planos e o conhecimento de seu papel no setor, sendo a passividade da Infraero um dos motivos identificados para essa situação. A análise da pesquisa, dividida em três períodos, permitiu observar que o esforço da empresa para seguir as estratégias traçadas nos planejamentos anuais é constante, porém foram identificadas três situações que desencadearam o surgimento de estratégias emergentes: em contextos mais estáveis e favoráveis financeiramente, como forma de se aproveitar oportunidades de crescimento e aprendizado; através de decisões do governo; e reativamente, perante a necessidade de se manter e resgatar a sustentabilidade da empresa. Apontam-se, também, como fatores decisivos influenciadores da formação estratégica: o contexto social e econômico do país, especialmente face o crescimento do transporte aéreo; o contexto político; o contexto interno, em que se observou a influência causada por gestores e o estado das finanças internas; e a ocorrência de grandes choques externos. / The present research approaches the study of strategy formations at Infraero, a Brazilian state-owned company responsible for managing airports in the country. For that, a case study was fulfilled which includes the analysis of a historical time of the state company until the present days, between the years of 1995 to 2016, using the theoretical approach of Henry Mintzberg, of emergent and deliberate strategies, and the approach of Baum and Dutton (1997) and Eisenhardt and Brown (1997), on the embeddedness of strategy and the search for a greater contextualization of the strategy. Through the research carried out, it was found that the misalignment between the company's actions, the airline sector and the government policies planned for Infraero is the main factor that has been limiting the company’s strategic actions, damaging its plans and the knowledge of its role in the sector, with Infraero's passivity being one of the motives identified for this situation. The analysis of the research was divided into three periods, allowing us to observe that the effort that the company has made to follow the strategies set in the annual plans is constant, however, three situations were identified that led to the rise of emerging strategies: in more stable and financially favorable contexts, allowing opportunities for growth and learning; through government decisions; and reactively, given the need to maintain and recover the sustainability of the company. It is also shown as decisive factors influencing the strategic formation: the social and economic context of the country, especially in view of the growth of air transport; the political context; the internal context, in which the influence caused by managers and the state of internal finances were observed; and the event of major external shocks.