Governança no setor público segundo a IFAC: um estudo nas universidades federais brasileiras

Abstract

The Governance Applied to the Public Sector started from the need of government agencies move from purely bureaucratic institutions to institutions with management focused on results. Searching this transformation the public sector has adopted the principles of Corporate Governance adapting the particularities of public management. The Federal Universities inserted in the public sphere, have as purpose, connected to the tripod teaching, research and extension, forming conscious and highly qualified professional people. The purpose of this research is to investigate the level of adherence from the Brazilian Federal Universities to the practices of Brazilian public governance recommended by IFAC for the Dimensions "Organizational Structure and Processes" and "Control". This research can be defined as descriptive and exploratory with a bibliographic and documentary research as methodological approach. To collect data, a documentary analysis was performed followed by content analysis using as source, institutional documents from 59 Brazilian federal universities which was the research universe of census approach. In order to achieve the main purpose, an analysis script was prepared based on the best practice recommendations from IFAC for Dimensions "Organizational Structure and Processes" and "Control", being adapted to the Federal Universities in Brazil. Laws, bylaws, management and budget report from the 48 Federal Universities were analyzed. The results allowed concluding that the level of adherence from Brazilian Federal Universities to the Brazilian governance practices recommend by IFAC is about 49% of the total of 77 recommendations analyzed.