Fatores condicionantes do ambiente cooperativo entre órgãos de uma instituição pública

Abstract

Literature has revealed reasons or motivations to undertake actions of cooperation, as well as some successful factors and facilitating elements of relationships. However, the reasons are necessary conditions, but not sufficient to develop them. Therefore, it is proposed that the cooperative relationships present reasons to be conceived, which, by itself does not promote inter-cooperation, only awakes interest. However, there are in literature, among "success factors" and "facilitating elements", those which are called conditioning factors of the development of inter-cooperative relationships. It is observed that a public institution also represents a form of organization, with its peculiarities which differ from the private organization, but, in the same way, maintains relationships between its components. It appears that, even in the face of the possibilities and potentialities of cooperation between its components, they do not cooperate among themselves, or rarely cooperate without a cold/ motivation. Thus, there is the intention in checking which factors could be considered conditionings in order to maintain or strengthen the cooperative relationships between the components of a public institution. By means of content analysis performed in the interviews with the board directors of the teaching units at Federal University of Santa Maria - UFSM, it were raised the possibility of cooperation between the units, as well as the difficulties and factors considered conditionings to cooperative practice. Following, the factor analysis of data obtained by the questionnaires applied to teachers and administrative servers, demonstrates that the most important factors for UFSM servers present individualistic characteristics. Finally, through an ANOVA test, there were pointed correlations among the factors found and the UFSM teaching units. The study of the practices of cooperation gains also in importance, when it is realized that the business environment is leading towards the competition challenge without taking account the principle of cooperation.