Desafios da gestão universitária: um estudo da percepção dos diretores das unidades da Universidade Federal da Bahia

Abstract

University managers face several challenges to exercise their function, whether due to the complex organizational structure, culture or the absence of public and institutional policies that promote better conditions in the exercise of their function. The present study has as general objective to understand the challenges experienced by the directors of the University Units of the Federal University of Bahia. For this purpose, 18 directors were asked through a questionnaire consisting of closed and open questions. The research is exploratory in nature and used qualitative and quantitative analysis techniques. The results of the research reveal that the main challenges of the participants in the management are: the scarcity of financial resources, the excess of bureaucracy. From the research, it is concluded that the most challenging dimensions in the routine of UFBA directors: 1st - economic dimension (lack of financial, material and personnel resources); 2nd – bureaucratic dimension (excess of bureaucracy, rules and complexity of decision making); 3rd – motivational dimension (overwork and lack of resources to perform the work), 4th – technical dimension (lack of preparation/training and 5th – relational (administrative technical servants and teachers).