Descrição da configuração do controle organizacional em um órgão público e em uma empresa privada

Abstract

The main goal of this comparative study is to describe the configuration of organizational control in a public agency and in a private company, both located in the city of Maceió, AL. In order to achieve this general objective, the steps were: i) to describe the research findings, with the identification of control in the private company and in the public agency; ii) identify similar aspects of control in the private company and in the public agency; and iii) list, in relation to control, the main differences between the private company and the public agency. As a theoretical foundation, the study was based on national (in A2 stratum) and international publications on control, emphasizing their typologies and perspectives. For the methodology, the study was considered as basic, with data collection performed by participant observation and the study was configured ontologically as inductive, its epistemology as subjectivist and, therefore, of an interpretive paradigm. In addition, it had a descriptive-explanatory objective, without preestablishing inputs. As considerations, the study showed that both organizations have types of direct control, structural and diffuse, in different intensities.