The "equalizer" manager - Structure and Action in the Public Sector

Performing a managerial role in government organizations involves challenges that at times appear insurmountable. Despite being subject to the requisites of efficiency that infuse the rational management of any undertaking, public Administraçãon is also the object of issues of power that identify its polítical nature. This attribute of Public Administraçãons alone justifies it as a field of disciplinary knowledge deserving specialized study. Such studies should promote better understanding at descriptive, analytical, or even reflexive levels, while always favoring normative interventions that improve decisions, actions and, consequently, results. The applied nature of the field study of Public Administraçãon demands this. The purpose of this book is to promote understanding on the managerial "action" of public Administraçãons in the management of their organizations within the Brazilian context.