THE SUCCESSION OF THE ACADEMIC DEPARTMENT HEADS IN INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENT PROCESSES IN A FEDERAL UNIVERSITY
Succession. Succession Process. Department heads Institutional Development. Public service.
Facing a scenario of challenges and constant changes in which the IFES are inserted, as well as the inherent needs to improve management practices, linked to the processes that involve institutional development, arises from the need to study the succession and their interference in the Institutional Development Process of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. Thus, we ask: In what way does the succession of the Departments of Academic Departments interfere in the Institutional Development Process of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte? Thus, the objective of this study is to analyze the interference of the succession of the Departments of Academic Departments in the Institutional Development Process of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte. In this context, a descriptive research will be carried out, using the mixed method, of a quantitative and qualitative nature, as a subtype it develops in the form of a case study, examining the phenomenon within a specific organization. The research to be applied presents itself as a quantitative analysis, since the results are taken as if they constituted a real picture of the entire population targeted by the research and qualitative of the researched phenomenon, since it will imply the participation of the researcher in the universe of occurrence of these phenomena. Data collection will be carried out by means of an online questionnaire applied to all Heads of Academic Departments of UFRN and interview, from the list of Heads of Departments. In addition, training workshops will be held with the objective of presenting the main procedures to be adopted by a department head in the processes of institutional development. The secondary data will be collected in the documents provided by the research institution.