Análise do estilo de gestão predominante nas comunidades consolidadas no Município de Paço do Lumiar (MA)

Abstract

Every organization has a prevailing management style. Likert (1971) proposed a model of management system with the following classification: strong authoritarian, benevolent authoritarian, participatory consultative and participatory group. This model can be applied to every human organization. Therefore, it aims to analyze the prevailing management style of the consolidated communities from Paço do Lumiar (MA). For this, it is used the Likert (1971, 1975) and Likert e Likert (1979) researches. It is a qualitative study of multiple cases, in which the data collect is done through interviews, direct observation and documental analysis. The analyzed units are composed by the following communities: Comunidade Eugênio Pereira, Comunidade Nossa Senhora da Vitória and the Comunidade Todos os Santos. It is evaluated, through the dimensions, adapted for the research, the leadership process, the communication process and the planning process. It is evident that, in general, the participatory group management style of the System 4 prevails in the associations under study. However, this system is only shown in the Comunidade Todos os Santos on the planning process dimension. In the leadership dimension, the communities integrate, predominantly, the participatory group management style, as well as in the communication process. The planning process had shown the smaller difference of styles between the communities, prevailing the System 3. The Comunidades Eugênio Pereira and Nossa Senhora da Vitória have the most balanced management style, heading to System 4. The Comunidade Todos os Santos was the only one showing the benevolent authoritarian some moments, mostly on the leadership dimension. The Comunidade Nossa Senhora da Vitória was the only one to show the prevalence of the same management style, the System 4. From the particularities of each organization, you can think they are democratic, but it doesn’t happen. Finally, depending on the case, that these organizations can act on different levels of management, permeating even the authoritarian style of System 2.