Prácticas de Gestión del Conocimiento en una Institución Pública de Investigación. El Caso del Centro Tecnológico del Ejército en Brasil (CTEx).

This paper presents a study on the use of management practices, which can be classified as knowledge management practices, at the Technological Center of the Army, CTEx, a public research institution in Brazil. For this, a questionnaire divided into three parts was applied: the first part investigates the academic background of the members of the institution, especially inquiring about previous training in management they might have; the second part consisted of a set of twenty questions related to the different management practices existing in the institution; and the third part that included an open question about one of the existing practices that they considered that deserve special attention. The results showed that the CTEx not only does not have a structured management plan but also it does not properly apply most of the existing management practices. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]