Career and Family in the Modern-Liquid Society

• Autor(a) principal: Oltramari, Andrea Poleto
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Outros Autores: Iochins Grisci, Carmem Ligia
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: RAM. Revista de Administração Mackenzie
• Texto Completo: https://editorarevistas.mackenzie.br/index.php/RAM/article/view/2930
• topic: Carreiras; Executivo; Instituições bancárias

This article stems from an exploratory research which aimed to discern the personal dilemmas related to the banking executives’ career are currently shaped and understand how these dilemmas are twisted with their family relationships. In order to do so, to theoretically support, the following concepts were taken up: dilemma, subjectivity and life style, career, especially in the light of the models of borderless and protean career and immaterial work. The interviews were conducted with fourteen representatives from the family of the banking executives. The structured interviews were conducted with the family members in their homes or in stores suggested by them. Data were analyzed in a qualitative way. Results suggest the existence of dilemmas related to spatial and functional mobility and social life dispossession. The existence of these dilemmas is not a novelty. However, nowadays they take over the individual’s professional and personal lives regardless of time and space limits. This, in turn, affects the executive and his family’s way of life. Such configuration is connected to a “model” of meteoric professional career, which is the responsibility of the worker alone, in a context where immaterial work prevails. Whatever the choice of the executive and the family, both suffer the consequences of their decisions. Under the metaphor of modern-liquid society, it was possible to reflect on the theme of the fluidity of existence and thus consider the construction of career paths also as liquid, fluid, sinuous. The metaphor of sinuosity allowed to think that the construction of career may be uncertain, insecure and vulnerable. The results also showed the lack of contact with the family since offering family time would no longer be in this promising relationship network directly linked to professional success. Thus, from the look of the family about the dilemmas experienced by bankers, it was observed lifestyles that are associated with liquid-modern society.