PERCEPTION OF PEOPLE MANAGEMENT POLICIES AND ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT IN A PUBLIC UNIVERSITY

This study was aimed at analyzing the influence of the perception of people management policies on the organizational commitment of a specific class of works, the professors of a public institution of higher education. To do so, a survey was conducted involving the application of a questionnaire that had the participation of 284 professors. The instrument used in the research was composed of scales that measured the three-dimensional model of organizational commitment - affective, normative and instrumental - and participants' perceptions about the organization's people management policies, specifically: recruitment and selection; involvement; training, development and education; work conditions; performance evaluation and competencies and rewards. The data was submitted to descriptive, factorial and structural equation modeling analysis. The results show that only the policies of involvement and training, development and education, influence the organizational commitment of such category. Therefore, it indicates the need for a greater attention on the part of the public managers in relation to other policies, relevant as well, for the improvement of the bond between individual-organization.