A dinâmica do poderno espaço organizacional: uma análise das práticas de gestão da força de trabalho

Abstract

This work has as objective to investigate how people administration politics instrumentalize practices ofcnsciplmary power in an organization, and how the individuais build up adheãon and reâstance mechanisms to adjust memselves to those practices. In oíder to rearfr tVam^ft was mvestigatedthe wav an amonnt ofworkforce administration politics mediates discçlinary power practices in a Brazilian software development organization. It was also observedthe occurrence ofadhesion and resistance movements to those disriplinary power practices, paiticularizing me ccntrol legitimation and denial forms articulated by me workers. Tne anarysis perspective adopted recognizes me power relationships in me organization existing in several leveis, intensities and directions, as weü as its permanent recamguration character. Therefore, me organization relationship with its workforce ís inserted anrid other power relationships with other agents that compose me society. When centering in dififerent organizational actors' perspective, the memodological option adopted the oiganizational analysis interpretative paradigm postulates, emphasizmg the manners for which the mdrviduals are capable to interact with each other, and the resuhs ofthat interaction: me social ielancaships built up in me organizational space. For mat reason, it was an mvestigation based on quahtative nature techniques, which allow going besides a relatively simple, superficial and aesthetic vision, seekingto look for the questions roots, rts existence causes and relationships. The conclusions gathered in mis work ídentified, mthe power cncuits oftiie studied <>rganizatiai, me movements that itmakesmoiderto control, conquer and seduce às members, to accomplish its mam objectives ofpramcnyiry increase and ofits craiçetitiveness warramy in me current context Qa me other han4 itis noticed mat the individuais also deveio? stxategies to move memselves m those power circuits These strategies can be used to guarantee feeir interests, or just serve as survrval means in a social space absorbed in the laws ofme neoUberal capitalism. Tnose strategies describe political movements of conflicts mediation and of self-regulauon m ^e organizational environmenL The power conception adopted in mis work contabuted mme sense ofexpanding me analysis spectrum ofthe people administration practices, manúy ma time in which a lot oforganizations have been restracturing meir workforce administration politics It also can help in the development of other researches mat focus the power relationsmps between uoions and companies, as well as in the media analysis of the mam country executive magazines, which serve to the popularization, and the legitimation ofnew behavior pattems tobe adoptedbythe workforce.