IFPB Itinerant Rectory Program: an analysis under the participatory management approach.
Participatory management, democratic management, participation.
The general objective of this work was to analyze the Rectory Itinerant program of the IFPB (REITI), as a participatory management process of the institution. In meeting this larger goal, three specific objectives were established to drive the focus of the effort undertaken. The first one was to characterize REITI under the participatory management approach, based on information from the documentary research, mainly editions of the "IFPB Jornal" newsletter, and interviews with managers of the Rectory of the Federal Institute. The two following objectives were: to identify the degree and level of participation the program provides to the IFPB academic community; And compare the perspective of managers with the viewpoint of the servers and students, from the experience they had with it. For these purposes, a questionnaire was prepared based on the theoretical references that underlie the study and on key aspects of managers' discourse about the program. The questionnaire was applied to a sample of the participants of its meetings and had its result analyzed based on the percentages of the answers given. The question that led to this study was: to what extent does the REITI provide power sharing and decision-making to the IFPB academic community with a view to achieving participatory and democratic management in the institution?