Aspects impacting the estimation of labor force in a higher education institution

Abstract

The dimensioning of workforce in an institution demands a wide study due to their complexity. In brazillian national universities, with the advent of Law No. 11091/05, the Career Plan staff has become essential and mandatory in strategic planning and institutionalized as a form of analysis and quantification of the workforce necessary for the achievement of institutional objectives. Using a qualitative and quantitative approach in an exploratory character, we tried to investigate in the Universidade Federal de Viçosa, which variables impact on the planning of people management related to the expansion or reduction of workforce.Results indicate that, in the perception of managers, there is an efficient management of people. However, the recovery of the current workers, separated by policies for people management, can not be an efficient way to meet the existing demands and the process of expansion at the federal universities.