Artefatos concretos da cultura organizacional como instrumentos de (des)construção do racismo institucional: um estudo de caso no Tribunal Regional Eleitoral de Sergipe na gestão do biênio 2024-2026

Abstract

Objective: to verify whether, within the Regional Electoral Court of Sergipe (TRE-SE), there are concrete artifacts (verbal, behavioral and physical) of the organizational culture that may express, reinforce and/or foster racial equity and the confrontation of institutional racism and, if so, how they present themselves, in light of documentary evidence and of the perceptions of senior management officials and of self-declared Black civil servants. Theoretical framework: the study is situated in the Public Policy research line of PROFIAP, to which it contributes by examining the conversion of the national racial equity policy of the Judiciary into institutional practice within the Regional Electoral Court of Sergipe, through the concrete artifacts of the organizational culture. Methodology: qualitative and exploratory research, conducted as an embedded single-case study with two units of analysis. Fourteen semi-structured interviews were carried out and submitted to categorical content analysis following the steps proposed by Sampaio and Lycarião (2021), triangulated with documentary and normative research and with participant observation records. Results: of the 373 thematic units delimited, 372 were coded into the seven artifact categories, and none of them revealed a racially affirmative artifact endowed with institutional stability. A specular reading was identified between the two poles and, within the management pole, a gradient of racial literacy. Triangulation showed that the asymmetry is concentrated in the regime of discretionary appointment to commissioned positions and functions, the only space of functional mobility that no internal rule subjects to a racial equity criterion, even though Article 3 of CNJ Resolution No. 203/2015 expressly allows it. Originality and relevance: the originality lies in mobilizing the model of concrete artifacts as a lens for the racial reading of a public organization, which makes it possible to locate institutional racism in observable manifestations rather than in intentions. The relevance stems from the agenda established by the National Pact of the Judiciary for Racial Equity and from the fact that the study identifies, with precision, the point at which available regulation ceases to be converted into practice. Practical contributions (impact): the impacts are potential, since the product constitutes a proposal not yet implemented, and lie in the organizational, management and public policy areas. As a technical-technological product, a draft resolution is proposed establishing racial equity guidelines at TRE-SE, systematized from the 112 propositional constructions formulated by the participants themselves and ranked so that structural measures lead those of a symbolic and formative nature.