Economics and management of university organizations: the case of UFRJ

• Autor(a) principal: Façanha, Luís Otávio
• Data de Publicação: 1996
• Outros Autores: Jorge, marcelino J., Marinho, Alexandre
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/7987
• topic: university; evaluation; organizational efficiency.; universidad; evaluación; eficiencia organizacional.; universidade; avaliação; eficiência organizacional.

Evaluation as well as management of public sector organizations are problems of considerable importance and complexity, particularly when we take into account the obvious interrelation between those two dimensions of organizational activities. Difficulties are magnified when interest foccuses on the implementation of permanent evaluation activities, those more meaningful to better management. This paper addresses the case of Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ). Both management and evaluation questions are treated as integral parts of the more general  control/coordination question, which involves an internaI self-knowledge problem and a criticaI externaI communication/political problem, to be simultaneously overcome. After a brief discussion of organizational aspects, some emphasis is given to the "internaI economy" of UFRJ and to budget considerations. The authors consider that the work.ing plan on organizational evaluation they have outlined is feasible, useful for purposes of assessments of effectiveness and organizational etTiciency. and informative, as is the case of good coordination mechanisms.