The Organizing Process of Strike in the Context of a Brazilian University Library
Name: PERLA RODRIGUES LÔBO
Publication date: 31/05/2016
Advisor:
Name |
Role |
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| ALFREDO RODRIGUES LEITE DA SILVA | Advisor * |
Examining board:
| Name |
Role |
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| ALFREDO RODRIGUES LEITE DA SILVA | Advisor * |
| CÉSAR AUGUSTO TURETA DE MORAIS | Internal Examiner * |
Summary: In a dynamic context of a strike people live in continuous interaction, they understand and build meanings and senses to daily activities and turn organizations into learning and knowledge construction spaces. Thus, by revealing practices performed in this context in a University Library this study seeks to understand the organizational processes in its dynamism and interaction. From this perspective Feldman and Orlikowski (2011) emphasize the relevance of the Practice-Based Studies (PBS). The PBS approach allows us to understand, for example, the organizational processes in a University Library, focusing the dynamics and organizational interaction. Therefore the general objective of this study is: understanding the organizational process of the strike in the Federal University of Espírito Santo library. To achieve the research main goal was used the theoretical perspective of ethno-methodology, which according to Coulon (1995), contributes to change a normative paradigm to an interpretive paradigm. Data collection procedures were the following: participant observation, informal conversations with practitioners, documents and photographs analysis. As final considerations it stands out that the organizational processes were dynamic and interrelated among the human actors (administrative officers, scholars, outsourced) and non-human (electronic equipment, striker‟s reunion tent; informational and propaganda disclosure material; cultural and recreational activities) in practice. Contributions include: the potential of PBS approaches and Ethno-methodology in organizational studies in library science field, since it was possible to recognize the dynamism on practicing the strike and analyze the Organization as a socially constructed reality. In addition, the study allowed understanding particularities of the strike who were beyond the formal organizational process from a University Library. Keywords:
