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Copyright Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração Jan/Feb 2014

Abstract

The way the careers are built in the private sector has been object of a massive amount of investigation over the last twenty years or so (Bendassoli, 2009; Chanlat, 1995, 1996). Comprehension of the way this has occurred in the Brazilian public sector constitutes a gap in the current literature on the theme (Bresser-Pereira, 1996; Saravia, 2006). This article aims to understand how high-level technical civil servants build their careers, in light of different perspectives of careers as articulated in current social context. It delved to identity the existence of protean features exhibited by civil servants, in order to characterize a possible change of attitude, something more commonly associated with the private sector (Hall & Moss, 1998). Two groups were selected, one with current civil servants and another with former civil servants, all from a Brazilian state's Department of Human Resources. The subjects, all with college degrees in different fields, were interviewed using a semi-structured questionnaire. Resulting data was subjected to Content Analysis (Bardin, 1979; Minayo, 2007). A disruption of the logic of building a career in the public sector was observed, with servers searching for careers without boundaries, but linked to their personal perspectives; a logic commonly observed in the private sector. [PUBLICATION ABSTRACT]

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Title
Burocrata Proteano: Articulações de Carreira em torno e além do Setor Público/Protean Bureaucrats: Career Articulations within and beyond the Public Sector
Author
da Silva, Josélia Rita; Balassiano, Moisés; da Silva, Alfredo Rodrigues Leite
Pages
1-19
Publication year
2014
Publication date
Jan/Feb 2014
Publisher
Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração
ISSN
14156555
e-ISSN
19827849
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
Portuguese
ProQuest document ID
1475324055
Copyright
Copyright Associação Nacional de Pós-Graduação e Pesquisa em Administração Jan/Feb 2014