A Lei de acesso à informação em Instituições Federais de ensino superior: uma investigação na cultura organizacional da Universidade Federal Rural da Amazônia.

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze, under the perspective of civil servants, the main aspects of organizational culture, which can influence the compliance with the Law 12,527 of November 18, 2011, known as the Law on Access to Information. A quantitative, cross-sectional, exploratory, and descriptive study was carried out with 178 civil servants of the Federal Rural University of Amazônia, Brazil, selected by simple random probabilistic sampling. Data treatment used descriptive, inferential, and multivariate techniques, especially exploratory factorial analysis (EFA) and cluster analysis (CA). Results showed four factors, which explained 69.73% data variance and were denominated as public administration legitimacy (22.64%), public information misuse (20.29%), social domain of information (14,50%), and power and control of the civil servant (12.30%). The cluster analysis showed the presence of two groups: (1) one group composed by 58.99% of the interviewees; and (2) the other group composed by 41.01% of the interviewees. The former group was more cautious about providing organizational information, while the latter group was more open to the topic. Concluding, the researchers did not find at the research site strong resistance to changes brought by law, and in general the servants perceived beneficial aspects in the broad access to public information, unlike the literature and other researches.