O processo decisório nas Igrejas presbiterianas da cidade de João Pessoa

• Ano de defesa: 2006
• Autor(a) principal: Cruz Junior, Lairton Lira
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Federal da Paraí­ba; Brasil; Administração; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração; UFPB
• Palavras-chave em Português: Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil; Processo decisório; Centralização; Descentralização; Presbyterian Church in Brazil; Decision making process; Centralization; Decentralization; CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.ufpb.br/jspui/handle/tede/3774

The organizations are in search of new architectures and configurations that are more adaptable and flexible, in order that they may attend the demands of globalization. The mechanized Bureaucracies of the great corporations - the dominating organizational design in the specialized societies - are in the middle of a crisis because of the changes brought by globalization. The Presbyterian Church in Brazil is an example of a Bureaucratic organization, with a strong hierarchical structure, where the power for decision is centralized in the Executive Boards of the Church Councils. The general objective of this research was to study the decision making process in the Presbyterian Church in Brazil. The specific objectives were the following: to describe the management of de decision making process in the IPB; to discuss the management of the decision making process in the Presbyterian Churches of João Pessoa according to the theories of decision making; to know the church internal societies perception of the decision making process; and to present suggestions to make the decision process in the organization more active and flexible. In order to attain the objectives of this investigation, a descriptive research was developed with a quantitative and qualitative approach. The primary and secondary data were gathered in the organization manuals, in scientific literature and through field research. Besides the use of content analysis to assess the respondents discourses, statistical methods, such as frequency distribution, factorial analysis, reliability test, multivariate analysis of variance, and Bonferroni´s test, were also applied to the answers ordered according to a Likert scale. Finally, the investigation concluded that the church decision making process is affected by the dysfunctions and limitations of its own mechanized Bureaucracy. Therefore, based on the results, the present study suggests a gradual experience of decentralization of the decision making process, nonetheless compatible with its configuration, to minimize its lack of adaptability and flexibility through a more participative and democratic administration to favor its collaborators creativeness and to incentive their commitment.