Secretários executivos e secretários de governo do estado do Ceará: atribuições, afinidades e diferenças

Abstract

Over the years, the executive secretaries have gained considerable space within the job market. Currently, they are professionals with more and more complex assignments, which transcend those arranged in the regulation law of their profession. However, there are other positions whose name also includes the term secretary, which does not refer to the professional graduated in the Secretariat; they are Government’s secretaries, who have trusted advisors to assist them during their term in office, including the Secretaries of State, the Secretary of State, Chief of the Governor's Office and the Deputy Secretary of the Governor's Office. Since these governmental advisors are also called secretaries, then one searched the similarities and approximations between the duties of the Executive Secretary and those of the already mentioned secretaries of the Government of Ceará, considering the 2015-2018 term. Accordingly, the general objective of this research is to investigate how the functions of secretaries nominated to positions in the Government of Ceará dialogue with the attributions of the professionals of Executive Secretariat, assuming that this professional has a profile to advise a State administrator. For this, a qualitative, descriptive, bibliographical and documentary approach methodology was used, resorting to primary and secondary sources that contributed to the analysis and comments made during the research. The results showed that the responsibilities of the Executive Secretary carry several similarities to the tasks of the Secretaries of the State Government. It was concluded that - although the law did not follow the evolution of the profession of secretary - the Executive Secretary is able to assist the senior executive of the state government through the duties that are exercised by the executive secretary these days.