Planejamento estratégico em unidades de informação arquivísticas

Abstract

In the face of the current scenario of competitiveness among organizations, strategic planning – as an administrative tool – emerges as an alternative in constituting an advantage by providing long-term preparation in the face of organizational environment variables. Thus, considering the interdisciplinary relationships between Archival Science and Administration, the present work intends to investigate the use of strategic planning in archival information units in Brazil. It is an applied and exploratory-descriptive research, using quantitative and qualitative methods. It starts with a bibliographic review from 1990 to 2019, at national level, in search of publications related to the strategic planning applied in information units, so that, next, it is possible to proceed with the collection and data analysis. For the collection of quantitative data, a questionnaire of the web survey type was used, considering the geographical dispersion and the size of the research universe. The research universe consisted of the 491 information units listed in the Cadastro Nacional de Entidades Custodiadoras de Acervos Arquivísticos of the Conselho Nacional de Arquivos. During the receiving period from April 2020 to November 2020, 65 responses were received from different archival information units that agreed with the research. From the results obtained, we sought to characterize the strategic planning of the archival information units and their respective institutions. The results indicate that a good part of the institutions have a well-defined organizational identity, use strategic planning as a management tool and use it in a formal way. As for the archival information units, the results indicate a strong presence of professional archivists/technicians in these units, significant participation of the collaborators in the formulation of the strategies and that although there are few publications in the literature related to strategic planning in information units, some archives are already applying strategic planning as a management tool and visualizing benefits in their processes and services.