The objective meaning of management practice

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Paulo Tromboni
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Cadernos EBAPE.BR
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/cadernosebape/article/view/5056

This article searches through the sense of administrative practice and holds that it is objective. A philosophy of praxis was held here to be the main assumption of management research. The discussion is based on the characterization of the research matter. In the place of the natural sciences subject matter, inanimate and independent from men’ will, comes in the management practice with an objective meaning in the organizational context. This objective meaning is the result of the logic of the administrator’s objective situation. Which means, of course, the organization’s purposes, structured net of social relations and system of management and organizational practices. And this turns the management practice axiology into something real and linked to its efficiency and effectiveness. And so management practice becomes a factor for the regulation and controlled change of organizations. To look scientifically at a practice is to create the conditions under which it will change through a description, explanation and prescription dialectics.