Culturas nas organizações: homogeneidades e heterogeneidades na administração de uma universidade pública

Abstract

Cultural meanings form reference, validation and legitimating patterns of the actions of a particular social group, constituting, in this sense, possible scenarios of apprehending and revealing existing conjunctures in an organization. In order to overcome the functionalist treatment that limits the understanding of cultural phenomena in organizations, this work uses the "three perspectives" approach proposed by Martin (1992), known as: "integration", "differentiation" and "fragmentation ". The assumption that this study intends to strengthen is that, from the analysis of a social context, there can be the expansion and the deepening of the treatment of plural queries of cultures in the organizational environments. This research took as its main focus the cultural manifestations expressed by public servants who work in different departments that compose a same administrative organ of a federal university. Semi-structured interviews, documentary research and content analysis were the main instruments used to identify the cultural manifestations present in the organizational context analyzed. It was concluded by the argument that cultural investigations that exclude conflicts and ambiguities can silence important organizational facts as well as the inputs from individuals who do not always have power in these contexts.