Managerial proficiency and the development of public administrators

• Autor(a) principal: Souza, Eda Castro Lucas de
• Data de Publicação: 2002
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/6428
• topic: managerial expertise; government school; development of public administrators; new public administration; State reform.; capacitação administrativa; escola de governo; formação de gestores governamentais; nova administração pública; reforma do aparelho do Estado.

This paper presents a study on managerial proficiency programs, analyzing them throughout the Brazilian State reform processes. The paper begins by establishing a parallel between the evolution of those programs and the strategy of creating schools for high-level public officials both in Brazil and Argentina. After analyzing the political and institutional context in which those programs were developed and inferring that their concepts are subject not only to the elements that formed each culture, but also to the basic guidelines of their respective states, the paper identifies the features of the new public administration, as well as those of the new management model introduced by the most recent Brazilian State reform movement, in 1995. Based on those features and on the fact that managerial proficiency is tied to competence - concepts discussed in the paper -, the paper makes suggestions about the profile the administrator must have for the managerial public administration proposed by the Brazilian State reform plan.