Critical Approach Under the View of Habermas Communicative Action: Participatory Management at the Serra do IFES Campus
Name: EGLALCIANE DE LYRIO TONGO CASTRO
Publication date: 27/05/2015
Examining board:
Name |
Role |
|---|---|
| ALFREDO RODRIGUES LEITE DA SILVA | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: This study aimed to understand, critically, as is characterized the participative management on IFES Campus Serra, from the understanding and the interactive process of the administrative technicians staff (TAEs) classes C, D and E and immediate supervisors. Thus, Jürgen Habermas's Communicative Action Theory (CAT), as well as its proposal for democracy deliberative, were undertaken as a theoretical framework for understanding this process, and the guiding concepts of CAT (speech acts, the life-world, system, colonization of the lifeworld, public sphere, communicative action and instrumental or strategic) were employed as elements of analysis of the relevant structures identified in the survey. This work is characterized as a qualitative research and has a critical approach with dialectical view of social reality. The analysis was conducted considering the dual effect that the practice of participative management may mean: how commitment to performance and strengthening the capitalist system; and how the resistance of organized workers to the forms of domination and control. Empirical data were produced by desk research, participant observation and semi-structured interviews. Were interviewed eight TAEs and 13 immediate supervisors that were selected according to the criteria of the snowball. The content analysis was used for the treatment of interview. The results point to the construction of participatory actions of instrumental nature, established based on the interests of the management of specific and individual groups. Thus, the practice of participative management is characterized as a strategic space to reach the success and not the understanding, WHERE the TAEs share the responsibility in the process of maintenance and construction of the phenomena that hamper the development of democratic participation.
