The basis of a self-determined administration: the diagnosis emancipatory

• Autor(a) principal: Garcia, Ramon Moreira
• Data de Publicação: 1984
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/10556

Since the organizational theory is marked at its present stage by a complete lack of originality, the theorists limiting themselves to apprehend the facts of day-to-day life only in terms of their appearances, the Author intends to elaborate an organizational diagnosis based on functional requisites dependent on certain human values, or founded on ethical principles. To attain his objectives, he starts from an exercise of self-enlightenment, in which a three-stage analysis is fundamental:  1st stage: the persons participating in an organization must be seen as self-determined beings, capable of taking part in the transformation of their world; 2nd stage: administration, according to said self-determination criterion, must be defined as a making of crucial decisions, relatively to possible courses of action; 3nd stage: strategic resources or instruments of self-determination must be provided, to function as supportive bases, in order to assure the feasibility of a liberating administration. As a final thought, it should be made clear that the Author does not at any time propose the establishment of methods of diagnosis that may become "owners of the truth". On the contrary, his concem is oriented towards the discovery of processes that allow people to pass from the state of "being" to a state of "being more" (a state of awareness - conscientização - as Paulo Freire put it). The author is entirely favourable to an activity encompasing action and reflexion, a constant and dynamic activity, exercised in terms of reality by the participants in the organization.