Amigos, amigos; negócios... não são à parte! notas sobre a racionalidade nas organizações de trabalho (caso para ensino)

Abstract

This teaching case goals to proportionate to management students and professionals a reflexion about rationality in the decision making process in organizations, especially in Personnel management. One presents a situation occurred in a unity of a large company in Belo Horizonte city. In this situation, a manager invited a friend to implement a project, what became a problem because the invited friend did not have the qualifications for that position. In the protagonist’s dilemma between firing her friend or not, we perceive that the instrumental rationality in the decision making process is relative because there is a subjective and an affective dimension which characterizes some relationships in companies.