The Role of Corporate Universities as an Instrument for Implementing Sustainability Practices in the Public Sector

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This research portrayed the reality about investments in courses from the perspective of sustainability carried out by Escola Fazendária, which represents the corporate university of the Secretary of Finance of the State of Pernambuco. The study had the objective of analyzing courses and training actions of the aforementioned corporate university, as an instrument for the implementation of sustainability practices in the public sector of the State of Pernambuco. The common civil population and, also, the public servants of the State will be able to understand, through studies of this magnitude, how the Pernambuco public sector is in terms of the implementation of studies and the execution of new practices constituted in favor of sustainability. The research used a qualitative approach and of an applied nature, which consisted of an exploratory -descriptive character. Due to the fact that it is also one of the corporate universities that are part of the aforementioned corporate education program in the state of Pernambuco. The research was carried out in two phases: (1) institutional documentary survey, about the courses offered between the years 2016 to 2020, aimed at sustainability practices in the analyzed institution; (2) interview. The results were organized through the elaboration of annual tables of courses that were directly related to the study on sustainability, consequently, related to the implementation of the objectives of sustainable development. The end of the study brought the certainty that there is a range of achievements to be achieved so that sustainability is not only included in program content and, in fact, that it is the starting point for any and all actions carried out in the Pernambuco training program. and training of state employees.