Declared and Practiced Organizational Values at Federal University of Santa Catarina

Organizational values represent principles and beliefs that guide the life of people in the organization. This article aims to describe the perception of teachers and technicians in administration, which are both public servants, in relation to the organizational values of the Federal University of Santa Catarina. The procedures of this research privileged the mixed method, the descriptive perspective, and case study, with the application of an online questionnaire for data collection (214 responses) and the use of descriptive statistics and content analysis. It was found that the values most practiced in the studied University are the ones related to teaching (internationalized, academic and quality, cultured, active), more related to the students. However, participants state that most declared values are less practiced. We identified inconsistencies between the declared and practiced values. Excessive bureaucracy, lack of management interest, mismanagement, politics, corporatism, lack of ethics are some of the factors that restrain the actual practice of the values, and they are the reason why servants find it hard to identify with organizational values.