GOVERNING IDEAS IN A PUBLIC INSTITUTION OF EDUCATION, SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY: MISSION, VISION AND VALUES
governing ideas, mission, vision, values, organizational culture, public management.
This research identified, by a case study, the perception about organizational values, purpose and vision among members (civil servants) of a public institution of education and compared those identified ideas with the formal mission, vison and values statements. Due to their differences in nature, those ideas required three different methodological approaches and tools. To identify values, a quantitative approach; to identify de purpose of the organization, interviews and, to identify the vision, a creative method based on projective tests – in this case, drawing. The outcome of this research partially confirmed the initial hypothesis that those mission, vision a values statements where not shared among the members of the organization.