O comprometimento organizacional de coordenadores(as) acadêmicos(as) com a gestão dos cursos de graduação da Universidade Federal de Pelotas

Abstract

The behavior of the individual in the work environment is an important object of study. The main reason is to understand the existing links between the worker and the organization and, from there, to map how improvements can be generated in the performance of both one and the other. The present work aimed to analyze specifically one of these links: the organizational commitment of undergraduate coordinators of the Federal University of Pelotas (UFPel), because it is the researcher's place of work and for having the management scholarly responsibility in the entrance of the students in the institution. For this purpose, the three-dimensional model of Meyer and Allen (1991) was used, according to which organizational commitment is formed by three components: affective, characterized by an affective relationship between the individual and the organization; instrumental, characterized by the costs it must bear when leaving the organization; and normative, characterized by the feeling that the permanence in the organization is a moral duty. The research was composed of three stages, the first exploratory, with literature review. The second, also exploratory, consisted of the use of a questionnaire for data collection, formed by two parts: sociodemographic profile and organizational commitment scale of Meyer, Allen and Smith (1993). The questionnaire was sent to the eighty UFPel undergraduate coordinators by electronic mail. The final, descriptive step was dedicated to the analysis of the data obtained. The results demonstrated the existence of a high affective commitment, low instrumental impairment and moderate normative impairment. At the conclusion of the research, it was observed that it is necessary to keep an eye on the reality demonstrated by the research. Intervention activities should be developed with a view to enhancing affective and normative commitment, as well as investing in the construction and strengthening of instruments, so that, over time, the servers present greater commitment, generating greater benefits both for themselves and for the university itself.