Stimulating Participative Communication in The Minas Gerais Secretary of The Treasury

• Autor(a) principal: Leite, Nildes Pitombo
• Data de Publicação: 2010
• Outros Autores: Martinez, Victor de la Paz Richarte
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista Gestão e Projetos (GeP)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.uninove.br/gep/article/view/10537
• topic: Stimulating Participative Communication in The Minas Gerais Secretary of The Treasury; Projeto de Comunicação Viabilizando a Expressão dos Servidores da SEF/MG

Contemporary communication theory favors participation and collective development of meaning. This paper seeks to analyze the forces that favor and inhibit the participative management of communication in the Minas Gerais Treasury Secretary. This is an organizational case study which involved a total of 464 employees at five different hierarchical levels and supervisory candidates. Participants were asked to describe organizational changes which would facilitate participatory communication. In addition to our survey, we analyzed the secretariat’s website. We applied content analysis to both the employee responses and the website analysis. The main categories of analysis were the management of communication and change. Our results suggest that participative communication involves multiple dimensions—institutional, instrumental, structural, and relational, which vary across hierarchical layers. An understanding of these dynamics has implications for managers who seek to implement participative organizational change.