The area of people management has been evolving since 1900, through the creation of employment law, personnel department, human resource systems, to what we now call personnel management. Thus, this study seeks to understand the people management policies in academic administration and management of a Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology, identifying management policies used by the federal government aimed at managing people and the law applied to the Institute. The methodology adopted is bibliographic, qualitative, descriptive, and data were collected through a field applied research and semi-structured interview. As a result, opportunities for improvement are identified in the policies of managing people in an institute, considering the public policy of the federal government