Hiring Sustainable Air Force Command

Abstract

The research investigates how the sustainability criteria are being applied by the Aeronautical Command Units in bidding for procurement of works and engineering services, linking them to the level of investment in these objects. The national development, as contemplated in granting subsidiary Air Force Basic Doctrine, is the main goal of sustainable procurement, a leading developer of environmental industry. Moreover, the practice of sustainability has great projection in the image of the organizations that use them, linking them to socially responsible institutions. The survey was conducted from data obtained through questionnaires answered by experienced managers of their organizations, creating a table that quantifies the  degree of implementation of sustainability criteria. This degree was confronted with data obtained from the Website of  Transparency, quantifying the investment of these units under construction and engineering services. Finally, the  investments were treated as units of micro, small businesses and large enterprises. The following results were obtained: organizations apply sustainability criteria partially analogous to company size, however, there are still organizations that fit differently to this expectation, and the degree of application of sustainability criteria is associated to the existence of internal norms formally instituted in organizations. Given the results analyzed, we noticed the importance of creating a sustainable program specific to hiring the Air Force Command efficient and standardized.