Resumo

Corporate governance for public organizations is a subject whose relevance has increased in the last years thanks to private companies accountability and transparency importance acknowledgment as a model to be followed, refined and adapted to governmental management practice. When it comes to public sector and its encompassing (federal, state and municipal spheres) corporate governance finds out extreme usability because of the consequent reliability necessity for public position occupant and public resource trust relationship establishment.

Based on this knowledge the present article aims at evaluating Brazilian Federal Public Administration (BFPA) level of IT processes corporate governance by analyzing it as a unique variable (general index) and as a sort of variables (factors). In this context and based on the lack of scientific studies that have tested IT processes governance among different public institutions groups, it will be state the following hypothesis: H0: There is no statistical significant means difference about IT processes governance among Brazilian Federal Public Administration groups of institutions.

Public and private organizations are increasingly more dependent on IT to make its activities and processes feasible. Several assets are historically managed by the enterprises like people, capital, facilities, customer relationship, but more recently a new area has risen up concerned about data control collecting, storing and disseminating (Gonçalves, Gaspar & Cardoso, 2016). Weil & Ross (2004) confirm this point of view when they state the necessity of an IT alignment with the business in order to warrant a complete synchronism between company and its IT processes effective use.

This work was accomplished as a descriptive research aiming at presenting characteristics of a population, phenomenon or study (Bryman & Bell, 2011) and data collection was performed by quantitative method using mathematical language (Neuman, 1997). In terms of data analysis, it was promoted descriptive statistics which according to Martins & Teóphilo (2009) deals with frequency answers measurement. Additionally analysis of variance (ANOVA) was engendered in order to make hypothesis test possible (Field, 2009).

Through ANOVA and Welch’s Robust Tests for the factors taken individually only IT Hiring Planning Process, IT Contracts Management Process, IT Projects Management and IT Services Management Project passed the statistical significance criterion and represent proven different means among the institutions groups. Representing all the factors average value, IT Process Governance General Index also passed Welch’s Robust Test which allows to asseverate that, taken in a general outlook, the IT processes governance also exhibits statistically significant means difference among the four groups

Apparently external processes acquired receive a stronger governance treatment than internal ones since the procurement activities until the contracts administration. A possible explanation may explore Brazilian regulation about public goods purchase and services acquisition as a pressure driver so to motivate such a behavior. On the other hand IT Security presenting shrunken cyphers may point out the requirement of stronger IT processes governance policies and the matter deepening.

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