Gestão por competências no Poder Judiciário: um estudo no Tribunal Regional Eleitoral do Piauí.

Abstract

People management permeates the entire organization, not being restricted to a portion of it, hence its strategic importance. They are the people who mobilize available resources and can deliver public services with the quality that society already recognizes to be entitled to. Thus, the management of people by competencies, due to their link to the organizational strategy, has been the object of research and application in public and private management. The purpose of this study was to map out the individual competencies required to perform the function of Chief of the Registry of the Regional Electoral Court of Piauí, the starting point for this body to verify existing skills gaps and to initiate a virtuous cycle of training and evaluation, as well as to carry out a review on the requirements for the implementation of the internal and external selections, among various other processes that can be positively influenced by this people management technology. The case study strategy was adopted, and the research was classified as exploratory. Firstly, the documentary and secondary data search was carried out to compile a preliminary list of competences. This preliminary list was then sent, by means of an on line questionnaire, to the occupants of the function in question, composed of objective and subjective issues. Through this instrument of data collection, the subjects of the research were able to evaluate the degree of relevance of each related competence, for which a Likert-type scale was used. The data were trated qualitativelyquantitatively, so that a list containing five technical skills was obtained, four related to knowledge of laws and regulations and the fifth to computer knowledge, as well as twentytwo behavioral competencies such as celerity, impartiality, credibility, transparency and ethics, among others, totaling twenty-seven. Next, some of the research delimitations were listed, among which the low number of respondents and the restriction of the results and propositions to the organ object of the research. At the end, proposals were presented for improving the management of people in the TRE of Piauí, within the perspective of competency management, whose implementation represents one of i ts strategic objectives for the period 2015-2020.