The practice of cooperative principles is an inflection point for the cooperative organization
model, whose objective is to provide service to the member. This research is a case study on
the practice of cooperative principles. It starts with the over-understanding of these and how
the cooperative, object of research, Sicoob Tocantins, is structured to develop them and thus
contribute to meet the needs of its members. In effect, it consists of identifying the application
of cooperative principles and verifying the practical reflexes of cooperative principles, which
underlie the conduct of members, as well as the profile of the cooperative society. As well as
to reflect the results of the status quo of application of the cooperative principles in the credit
cooperative, comparing them with the study carried out by Bertuol in 2012. Finally, to
describe the form of application of the cooperative principles in the cooperative. The
methodology takes a qualitative approach and has explanatory and descriptive purposes. The
instruments used comprise of semi-structured interviews directed to the directors and
employees of the credit cooperative Sicoob Tocantins based in Paraíso do Tocantins. In
addition, interviews with directors of the OCB/SESCOOP-TO System, in addition to the
application of questionnaires, directed to members through convenience sampling. The results
show that the cooperative Sicoob Tocantins practices the cooperative principles in a partial
way, since the effective practice of the principles points to the need for reciprocity:
cooperative and cooperative.
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