Meritocracia e seleção para cargos comissionados: um estudo no Instituto Federal de Educação, Ciência e Tecnologia da Paraíba

Abstract

This dissertation discusses meritocracy and selection of people in the public service, and shows a study that aimed to analyze the extent to which the selection of civil servants for the occupation of the commissioned positions of free nomination within the scope of the Federal Institute of Paraiba – IFPB - has been a meritocratic process. The theoretical basis was based on articles, institutional documents and bibliographical research on meritocracy and public selection, themes that, historically, have generated many discussions in the public administration, and are central and indicators in this work. Meritocracy is understood as a set of values that defines the assignment of criteria for recognition through individual performance, denying any kind of hereditary, corporate or political privilege. The selection is the way that management selects professionals to integrate their functional structure, through a merit system. A descriptive research was carried out with the servers of the Federal Institute of Paraiba divided into occupants of commissioned and non-occupant positions. For data collection, interviews were carried out with managers and application of online questionnaires with servers occupying commissioned positions of free nomination, as well as with those who do not occupy commissioned positions. The interviews were analyzed through the analysis of content and the data generated by the questionnaires with the help of SPSS (Statistical Package for Social Science) software. The main results show that greater transparency is needed in procedures for indication to minimize the use of political influence for the occupation of the commissioned positions of free nomination, as well as to create mechanisms based on clear and objective criteria, without disregarding the power of discretion inherent to the managers in the selection process. It is concluded that the selection processes for commissioned positions of free nomination, still cannot be considered a meritocratic process in the scope of the Federal Institute of Paraiba, thus requiring special care by managers.