A disseminação da informação na avaliação institucional e seus reflexos na cultura oganizacional da UFMG

Abstract

This dissertation investigates the dissemination of information in the exercise of institutional evaluation of a public university, the Federal University of Minas Gerais (UFMG). The dissertation attempts to find out both the impact of that dissemination in the community, and its reflection in the culture of the organization. lt also aims at identifying how access to and dissemination of information took place, in the attempt of verifying the contribution of this dissemination in the formation of a culture of evaluation and its acceptance within the university, looking at differentiated views in different units. The theoretical framewom used in the dissertation is threefolded; the information, in its management and its dissemination, taking into account the approach of the information Science, the organizational culture, with the aim of understanding how the culture alters with changes; and the main characteristics of institutional evaluation. All these three ingredients of the theoretical framework are correlated among themselves and are also related to the information Finally, this dissertation proposes possible themes, to be developped in further studies, about the dissemination of information and the organizational culture, and the use of information as an instrument for institutional evaluation.