The Collective Manager: Group Psychodynamic in Companies Managed by Workers – A Case Study

• Autor(a) principal: Meira, Fabio Bittencourt
• Data de Publicação: 2014
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Organizações & Sociedade (Online)
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufba.br/index.php/revistaoes/article/view/11374
• topic: Recovered companies; Worker’s self-management; Psychosociology; Human groups; Collective management; Empresas recuperadas; Autogestão; Psicossociologia; Grupos humanos; Gestão coletiva

This paper summarizes the results of a research on Companies Assumed by Workers (CAW) – firms that go into bankruptcy and end up managed by ex-employees. The main question is how do the workers recreate bonds, social interactions and inherited management practices? The answer is based on group Psychosociology to propose a theoretical construct named collective manager: a reference to the ensemble of group subjective mechanisms that operate throughout their self-organizing process. This construct is presented in a case study, in which theoretical considerations dialog with the field research findings. The outcomes strengthen the understanding that group self-organizing is correlated to the group subjective work of self-limitation. In the case of CAW, the process seems to be leaded by the selective and permanent adjustment of group creative and transformative praxis to environmental constraints and contradictions.