O TRABALHO DOS PROFESSORES DE GINÁSTICA DE UMA ACADEMIA: ENTRE O DIVERTIR E O SOFRER.

Abstract

The dissertation presents results of a research done in an organization that acts in leisure sports, located in Goiânia-GO. The research has, as an general aim, to verify what senses of work to gym teachers by the psycodynamic view of work, and it has the specific aims: 1. analyse how the organization of work would be lived; 2. analyse how the conditions of work in the gym would be lived; 3. analyse the relations of work in the gym; 4. describe the experiences of pleasure-suffering in the work and 5. investigate what strategies of facing the suffering used by gym teachers . Considering that the organization belongs to the leisure segment, directed to A public and that it's one of the best ones in the state, it was considered that the organization and conditions of work were predominantelly pleased to the employees, since their goal is to provide health and fun to the customers, in their free time (time of non-working). The research was based in the psycodynamic approach of Dejours work. The study of case presented has a descriptive and exploratory view. Semi-structured interviews were done with fifteen employees, intencionally choiced, who are in charge of service direct the customers. It was analysed documents with informations about: instructions and ethics code, values and mission of the organization. The base was analysed by the graphic speech analyses. The results indicate that time is an important category of analyses to this group, since they provide a good (leisure) to whom don't have access because of lack of time; it was presented an organization of work with rigid rules od behavior to the employees. It was observed some factors that gives experiencies of pleasure, as freedom and recognition of work, pleasure in the socio-professional relations, environment of work and management, good salaries in relation to the average market. In relation to suffering factors, there were complaints about over-work and physical tiring, being emphatysed: tiring physical routine, tiring work, internal pressure to accomplish goals and precarious work conditions with loud noises, creating wearing and overweight in the employees. Facing the suffering, it was used strategies of facing, such as denied of reality work, rationalization and acceleration of cadências. It was noted that in the researched company the result of the ideological consolidation of the rules system works as an authority regulator system that provides the image of the company as a good object and by other way, to be to blame for the person. By this view, the organization is good, protector, and the man is bad and dangerous.