Seleção de projetos na justiça federal em São Paulo: um método para a proposta orçamentária

Abstract

Public management has been going through a process of modernization in Brazil, adopting new techniques. Mechanisms of management have been developed in public projects seeking for improvements in the results so as to meet the demands of the population. The budgetary resources required to accomplish these projects are naturally scarce, aggravated by the current crisis. The manager needs to decide what to do and this decision must be made efficiently, using resources in a rational way so that its application turns out beneficial to the society. One of the instruments used in project management in the public sector is the Annual Budget Law (ABL), based on the multiannual plan. The ABL is the result of a budgetary proposal of the organization that must contain all projects of subsistence, modernization and innovation. The budgetary Proposal, therefore, must be aligned with the organization strategy and the demands of the society. Thus, the selection of the projects that will become part of the proposal represents a relevant step to this direction. Establishing rational criteria to decide, select, or manage is not simple. The choice of a model depends on the people, the environment, type of activity, the objectives and strategies of the organization, among other possibilities. This dissertation project aims to achieve the goal of proposing a method for the selection of projects for the budget proposal in the Federal Justice in São Paulo. To do this, it will apply a qualitative research approach, using a strategy of design science research (DSR). DSR is characterized by the detection of the problem, the construction of an artifact to solve this problem and its dissemination. The artifact of this study is the proposed method and was elaborated by means of survey and interviews with the participants in previous budget processes and research of documents related to the process. Likewise, the criteria to be applied in project selection were generated. The method and criteria were the objects of analysis of an exploratory focus group and another one, confirmatory for validation. The proposed method presents arguments for conference, verification and objective selection of projects, with clear criteria for decision making. Both method and criteria can contribute in practice to other public sector organizations in generating budgets.