Managerial work and intersubjective processes: an experimental project with directors of public hospitals

• Autor(a) principal: Sá, Marilene de Castilho
• Data de Publicação: 2002
• Outros Autores: Azevedo, Creuza da Silva
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Administração Pública
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/rap/article/view/6430
• topic: health management; managerial work; intersubjectivity and management; group processes and organizations.; gestão em saúde; trabalho gerencial; intersubjetividade e gestão; processos grupais e organizações.

This paper reflects on the experimental project of the Laboratory of Managerial Practices in Health Organizations, developed at the National School of Public Health at Oswaldo Cruz Foundation. This pilot project, which integrates a line of research that deals with the analysis of intersubjective processes in organizations, particularly within public health services, began in April 2000 with directors of public hospitals in Rio de Janeiro. Its purpose is to enable these managers to reflect on the organizational dynamics and to explore their personal experiences related to it. The process of change, the uncertainty about its results, as well as the emotional, imaginary and unconscious dimensions of organizations, are focused. From this perspective, the problems related to leadership, as well as the limits and possibilities of developing collective projects, are emphasized. The project is based upon the psychosociological approach of organizations, specially represented by the work of Eugène Enriquez, as well as on the contributions of the psychoanalytical theory, to understand group and institutional processes. It also tries to establish a dialog between these theoretical approaches and those from the organizational field. In this sense, the contributions of Alain Chanlat and Henry Mintzberg are also references.