Atividade de trabalho e desenvolvimento de adultos

• Autor(a) principal: Rezende, Marcello Santos
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Biblioteca Digital de Teses e Dissertações da UERJ
• Texto Completo: http://www.bdtd.uerj.br/handle/1/15120
• topic: Work activity; Adult development; Ergology; Work clinics; Atividade de trabalho; Desenvolvimento de adultos; Ergologia; Clínica do trabalho; Trabalho Aspectos psicológicos; Desenvolvimento humano; Adulto; CNPQ::CIENCIAS HUMANAS::PSICOLOGIA::PSICOLOGIA DO TRABALHO E ORGANIZACIONAL

This thesis aims to perform a theoretical investigation in order to analyze the relationship between work activity and adult development. By emphasizing the concept of activity as a point of view to guide the research on organizational and work processes, it is understood here that the development of adults (and their constraints) at work can be an important factor that helps understanding and transforming these processes. The thesis has a chosen format of five chapters-papers that, although independent among themselves, have been articulated to meet the overall goal of the thesis. The ergologic démarche served as guidance for the mobilization of different theoretical and methodological frameworks, seeking to engage them in a dialogue. Our study first sought to explore the theoretical foundations that underlie the concept of activity in psychology, particularly the one used in the different approaches and currents of study on labor, all of which, in Brazil can be understood as belonging to the field called Work & Organizational Psychology W&OP. In a second moment, two contemporary approaches that investigate adult development at work from the point of view of activity were compared: Professional Didactics and the Clinic of Activity. With these two currents as a reference, this thesis sought a better understanding of adult development from a situated analysis of the work performed by a sector manager of a large state-owned company. Finally, we sought to demonstrate that the Socio-Technical Approach, by introducing the theme of quality of work life (QWL) during the 1960s and 1970s, already indicated key issues related to work activity and adult development. The undertaken research allowed us to conclude that adult development at work is made possible from the occurrence of two phenomena: i) active confrontation with the environment, causing individuals to reconfigure, even in a non-conscious manner, what they previously find in a work situation. ii) Social Mediation, through language, of this experience of confrontation with the environment.