A perspectiva política: um estudo sobre o poder organizacional em unidades de informação

Abstract

It presents a doctoral research (thesis) that analyzed the organizational power in Information Units under the political perspective of Management Science. The contours of this research were sought in Information Science and Management Science references to support the policy perspective component themes that has the focus on the analysis of organizational power in information units. Questionnaires for the analysis of organizational power were conducted to 4 chief-librarians of the University Libraries (UL) of the Federal University of Bahia’s Library System (SIBI/UFBA) and to 4 coordinators of the Public Archives of the State of Bahia (APEB), generating results for each of them. It is concluded that the UL of the Federal University of Bahia’s Library System (SIBI/UFBA) have an organizational power more focused on the head, through the exercise of authority, and less distributed by members of work teams. There are also conclusions for APEB.