Contextualização dos tipos documentais da imobiliária Taperinha, Santa Maria, RS

Abstract

The paper analyzes the document types of a private company concerning its core activities. The institution selected for this study is Taperinha Real Estate Agency, which has operated in the real estate business in the city of Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, since 1973. The company sells and rents real estate, as well as it manages condominiums. The general goal of the paper is to identify the context of document production of this company concerning its core activities and the functional elements that internally characterize it and the document type. The following are the specific objectives: to identify the current status of existing files in the company; to get to know the organizational structure of the company from its core activities; to identify the types of documents; and to map the information flow of the core activities. The methodological procedures are the collection of data using an instrument designed for this purpose, the direct observation in these sectors, the study of the company's constitutional documents and of those generated from its activities. The conceptual issues underlie the files, business files and activities, documents, activity and document type, the life cycle and the theory of the three ages, document management, archive functions, traditional and contemporary archival, archival and real estate legislation. The objectives proposed for this research were achieved.