ESCOLHAS E DECISÕES: ESTUDO DO PROCESSO PARTICIPATIVO EM ORGANIZAÇÕES DA ECONOMIA SOLIDÁRIA

• Autor(a) principal: Nascimento, Anderson Rafael Barros do
• Data de Publicação: 2008
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da METODISTA
• Texto Completo: http://tede.metodista.br/jspui/handle/tede/135
• topic: Escolhas e Decisões; Participação; Economia Solidária; Empresa Recuperada; Trabalho Cooperativo; Autogestão; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO

Last decades in Brazil have presented the predominance of stability and state deregulation in Economy, disregarding its impact on people's lives. Crashes and bankruptcies are a result of such process. For workers, opportunities of alternative models in labor relations have come after much effort. In this context, the new speech of Sympathetic Economy arises, valuing self-managed practices. Recovered Companies are included in this new speech. However, in Sympathetic Economy recovered companies and enterprises, fertile ground in the field of subjectivity faces an objective dilemma. In a struggle for survival and sustenance, organizations will have to adopt bureaucratic practices, and it is possible that participation may become disillusioned. As a consequence, there is a dilemma between objectivity, demanded by the management, and subjectivity, demanded by the Sympathetic Economy speech. This paper proposes that participation allows a psychological effect as it assures a continuous interrelation between institutions operation and qualities and attitudes of people who work on them. Choices and decisions, thus, are placed as a process which composes the participation category. How do workers from Sympathetic Economy organizations participate in the process of choices and decisions in a collective, cooperative working system? This is the core question in this paper research, which aims to analyze the process of choices and decisions in Sympathetic Economy organizations. Based on it, a case study has been carried out through an "action-research" methodology in a recovered company in the countryside of São Paulo. This action-research is a kind of empiric-based social research conceived and carried out in close association with an action or solution for a problem. Such problem, in the case study context, was conceiving an employee-training process for future cooperated members. The discussion path was followed by a Task Group composed of organization CLT (Labor Laws Consolidation) employees and cooperated members. The analysis of the outcomes was carried out from theoretical grounding, converging into three categories which compose the participation process in a Sympathetic Economy organization: "I by myself", "the others and I", and "the organization and I". The outcomes have shown that the studied company may not be considered as self-managed, is based on elite practices, has few collective practices and is divided in internal classes (factory floor and staff). However, recognize a large force to construction a new collective management practice. Participation occurs in formal aspects (meetings) with predominance of bureaucratic issues which will not go through collective appropriation in its construction. Teachability lights up the process path, breaking off with final views, and reaching sustenance in the organization.(AU)