"My Father is Still Here, In the People": Subjective Senses in Work Relationships in a Family Business

• Autor(a) principal: Andrade, Lilia Paula
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Cappelle, Mônica Carvalho Alves, Campos, Rafaella Cristina, Brito, Mozar José de
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Empreendedorismo e Gestão de Pequenas Empresas - REGEPE
• Texto Completo: https://www.regepe.org.br/regepe/article/view/707
• topic: Family Business; Subjectivity; Work Relationships; Empresa Familiar; Subjetividade; Relações de Trabalho

This study aims to understand the subjective senses related to work from the perspective of the employees of a family business. It was used a qualitative epistemology developed by Fernando Luis González Rey as a theoretical-epistemological approach. Four interviews were conducted with the workers who were selected to represent the functional areas of the business. The results supported the existence of: i) subjective senses influenced by the story of the business founder's life; ii) subjective feeling of work as an extension of the founder's life; iii) feeling of belonging to the business; and iv) a stablished link between the own businesses workers. The case of the family business demonstrates that the subjectivity in the work develops in the middle of social practices. In this way, the subjective senses at work are influenced by a socio-historical context and by conscious and unconscious questions.