Abstract

LUCA, Gabriel Gomes de; BOTOME, Saulo Satoshi  and  BOTOME, Sílvio Paulo. The behavior of the university's goals: The formulation of objectives of a higher education facility by academic department chiefs and graduation course coordinators. Acta comport. [online]. 2013, vol.21, n.4, pp. 459-480. ISSN 0188-8145.

Clarity regarding role or social responsibility of a university organization facilitates components to present behaviors that will produce results expressed by it. It seems necessary, accordingly, assessing consistency between the function of the university (producing knowledge and making it accessible) and what is presented in expressions provided by managers. Expressions of "University Functions" were classified as "Vague Expressions" (44,74%), "Activities" (21,05%), "Eigen functions and characterizing the organization" (21,05%) and "statements of intent"(13,16%). Results indicate lack of clarity about the function, mistaking it for daily, bureaucratic activities, hardly ever displaying defining behaviors of the organization nature. Such functions difficult creating conditions for its social results to be achieved, since there is no visibility about behaviors that constitute it. Such findings enable deriving some behaviors that can outline the behaviors that define the function of the university, responsible for results that interest society and that configure its social responsibility.

Keywords : objectives of an organization; university social functions and objectives; activities versus behavior at organizational work; activities versus functions of the activities in organizational work; organizational behavior.

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