Administration model transformations involve alterations of the practices lenses and of workers' behaviors in organizations. The implementation of managerial changes should consider the motivations and behaviors of the workers. The motivations can be recognized through the identification and analysis of career anchors. The Brazilian Court of Audit, which has been involved since 2004 in the implementation of managerial administration, is finding it difficult to substitute the bureaucratic model, constituted throughout the history of Brazilian federal functionalism. The research objective is to identify the career anchors of the TCU workers, to contribute with the understanding of the problems involved in implementing the managerial model. The study identifies the anchors of the TCU workers. The results indicate incompatibilities between the main career anchors of the workers and the demand, theoretically, for the managerial model; additionally, the current system of TCU rewards helps to harden the workers' resistance to the changes extolled by the managerial model.
career anchors; rewards systems; public managerial model
