Percepção de mudança organizacional: um estudo em uma organização pública brasileira



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Elaine Rabelo Neiva
Maria das Graças Torres da Paz

Abstract

The organizational changes have been pointed out to be an imperative to the organizations nowadays, but its evaluation has been very complicated. The present study has the following objectives: a)measure organizational characteristics- organizational values and power considerations- before and after interventions accomplished in a Brazilian and public organization; investigate the organizational capacity for changes and attitudes towards the changes realized after the execution of interventions; investigate the individual and organizational changes realized after the interventions take place. The application of instruments has been carried out in two moments during a period of four years. According to data found, the organization passed through changes in its external image, in its outcomes and in its member's professional competence development. The organization showed low capacity for changes and individual preponderance attitudes were accepted and feared when related to the changes. The cultural organizational characteristics such as organizational values and power relationships were kept stable.

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Neiva, E. R., & Paz, M. das G. T. da. (1). Percepção de mudança organizacional: um estudo em uma organização pública brasileira. Journal of Contemporary Administration, 11(1), 31-52. https://doi.org/10.1590/S1415-65552007000100003
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Maria das Graças Torres da Paz, Universidade de São Paulo

Doutora em Psicologia pela Universidade de São Paulo. Professora dos Cursos de Graduação e Pós-graduação em Psicologia da Universidade Católica de Brasília e Pesquisadora Associada do Departamento de Psicologia Social e do Trabalho da Universidade de Brasília. Seus temas de interesse em pesquisa são perfil cultural das organizações, poder organizacional e bem-estar pessoal nas organizações