Graduate civil servants: perception of graduates on the practical effects of specialization

Abstract

This article aims to verify effects of the specialization course in Public City Management as a part of the Open University of Brazil. Observing alumni’s perspectives, this paper sought to identify the positive effects the course brought to the participants’ personal, professional and academic lives. Developing a descriptive and quantitative research, the technique used was the survey. The relevance lies in evaluating the importance of graduate-level training of civil servants, who form the state bureaucracy described by Max Weber. Considering that strong and developed state bureaucracies contribute to the development of countries and that the Brazilian federalist model imposes on municipalities, the issue of training municipal public servants becomes central to the State. The research results showed that the course had relevant developments in improving the professional performance of the alumnis who participated in the study