AS VIVÊNCIAS DOS TRABALHADORES DE UMA ORGANIZAÇÃO DE ENTRETENIMENTO: UMA ABORDAGEM PSICOSSOCIOLÓGICA E PSICODINÂMICA

Abstract

This paper presents the results of a research carried out on an organization of the entertainment and leisure business in the city of Goiânia GO. The present case study has descriptive and exploratory characteristics. The research had the general objective of verifying how do employees of an entertainment organization perceive organization, and how do they experience their interaction with it. As for specific objectives, perception was verified on: the organization of work; working conditions; relationships at work; experiences of joy and suffering of employees and also verifying which strategies of facing it were employed by them to deal with their suffering. Once the organization belonged to the referred business segment, it was assumed that the organization and conditions of labor led the employees into pleasant experiences, for their duty was exactly to promote pleasant experiences to the clients. This research was based on Dejours psychodynamic approach to labor, and on Enriquez s psychosociology. Semi-structured interviews were applied to seventeen employees intentionally chosen from those who dealt with clients. Documents related to policies, ethics, and the missions of the organization were analyzed by graphic analysis of speech. Results indicated rigid conduct policies to workers. Factors which lead to pleasant experiences were observed, such as liberty and recognisement of work, pleasure on the relationship between partners and employees an environment of work, and good wages. As for factors related to suffering, there were complaints of overloading and conditions of work, specially night shift, internal pressures on selling goals, lack of transportation and health insurance, poor security on the way home and lousy labor conditions due to high noise, no ventilation, warm temperature, cigar smoke and weak lighting; factors altogether leading to weary and sickness. In face of such problems, strategies of coping were used, such as negation of reality at work, rationale, and cadency acceleration. Documental analysis pointed to an structural contradiction between an official speech which claims as main factors towards success the adoption of moral and social values and the practice of human resources ideologically compromised to the logic of capitalism and profit generation; thus approaching employees in an instrumental manner, exerting pressure by overloading, exploitation, and alienation.