Legitimidade intraorganizacional: um estudo sobre as Coordenadorias de Planejamento, Gestão e Avaliação na Universidade Federal do Pará

Abstract

The Organizational Management at the University is studied through the Federal University of Pará (UFPA). The delimitation of the object focused on the Coordinating Planning, Management and Evaluation (CPGAs) in Academic Units - Institutes operating in the Bethlehem Campus, to investigate whether its creation and operation have contributed to the management of the institutes from 2007 to 2011.1. For this explanation was based on epistemologies of Administration Area, where the status of science has its support to the analysis of management and research - the organization that allows there, the interface of other sciences. Also in the area, legitimacy has been analyzed by the ability to explain adherence to social expectations in organizational, whose focus is usually associated with processes of formation, organization and maintenance of collective activities in certain environments. It also added to the study, the contributions from the Organizational Theory and Institutional Theory, which demonstrate the ability to adhere to social expectations in organizational processes associated with the creation, organization and maintenance of collective activities, when organizations seek to adapt their structures and procedures to be isomorphic to the expectations of the context.