Syndics or statesmen: who prepares the elites?

• Autor(a) principal: Oliveira, João Batista Araújo e
• Data de Publicação: 1986
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/10025

This article discusses new organizational alternatives for the development of elites in the public sector. After a preliminary discussion of the conflict between loyalty vs competence in the corporate culture of public institution, several training and structural alternatives for enhancing the level of organizational oxygenation are proposed. In the case of Brazil, the existence of a relatively developed higher education systems suggests that Training and Development units should be less concerned with technical and managerial tasks. What government needs are actions and institutions geared to the development of cultural and ethic systems constantly reminding the manager and the administrative elite of their role as statemen, not a foremen.