The role of the administrator in the academic structure of the Federal University of Rio Grande: an analysis based on the discourse of the collective subject

Abstract

This research had as objective to investigate the perception of the Administrators about the role they play in the Academic Units of the Federal University of Rio Grande - FURG, based on the Discourse of the Collective Subject (DSC). The purpose was to identify whether there was clarity on the part of the Directors of the Units as to the role to be played by the Directors, especially as regards the knowledge of the duties included in the job description; As well as the feeling of these professionals in relation to the functions they perform and to the future of their role as Administrator of Academic Unit of the Institution. The DSC technique also consists of analyzing the collected written material, extracting from each of the questionnaires the central ideas and anchorages, as well as their corresponding key expressions, which make up one or several speech-synthesis, in the first person singular. The analysis of the data, through the Collective Subject Discourse, provided conditions to understand the different understandings about the actions of the Administrator in the Academic Units and the difficulty of standardizing the activities of this professional, as well as the need for support from the Institution in the construction of a Solid proposal to bring these roles closer to the Units.