MANAGEMENT OF FEDERAL INSTITUTES: THE CHALLENGE OF THE CENTENARY FROM THE FEDERAL NETWORK OF PROFESSIONAL AND TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATION

The Federal Institutions of Education, Science and Technology had emerged in the context of expansion and valuation of the professional education unchained in the country by Lula's Government, since the year 2003, through a structuring plan of expansion of Federal System of Professional and Technological Education, that, up to 2010, will have passed from 140 to 354 institutions. In this context, the proposal of establishing 38 Federal Institutions to integrate the biggest part of these education units, from the year 2009, when the system gets centenarian, represents an immense challenge, considering the change of the management processes that it will have to be subjected to adjust itself towards the new institutional reality. Each Federal Institution is structured with a Rectory and some campuses, with interdependent management between both. Territorially, to the Rectory will comprehend the strategic function of politics definition, supervision and control. To achieve it, needs an administrative structure that congregates, beyond the cabinet, prorectories and systemic performance directorates, being responsibility of these agencies the function of working matrically entailed to the similar units of the campuses. Each Campus, therefore, responsible for the execution of finalistic institutional objectives, needs a hybrid structuring, through the association of functional and matrix departmentalization - to make possible the dialogue and interaction of the academic area departments with the operational units of the others departments of administration areas, education support, extension and research. In reality, the situational arrangement of the Federal Institutions is new and characterized as proper of a network structure, to systematically integrate several organizations of teaching through a central nucleus - in national scope, through the Professional and Technological Education Secretariat of the Ministry of Education, and in regional scope, some Campuses through a Rectory.