Abstract

MARIA AUGUSTO, Magda; GONCALVES DE FREITAS, Lêda  and  MAGNOLIA MENDES, Ana. Experiences of pleasure and suffering in the work of a professional public research foundation. Psicol. rev. (Belo Horizonte) [online]. 2014, vol.20, n.1, pp.34-55. ISSN 1677-1168.  https://doi.org/DOI-10.5752/P.1678-9523.2014v20n1p34.

This study investigates the experiences of pleasure and suffering of workers in a public research foundation. We aim at characterizing the work context in the dimensions of work organization, socio-professional relationships and conditions, describing the experiences of pleasure and pain and investigating the mechanisms used to mediate pain. The psychodynamics of work was the theoretical approach used to support research. Two collective semi-structured interviews with two groups of workers were held. The interviews were analyzed by analysis of Nucleus Sense. The results indicate a strong presence of the principles of Taylorism, which are associated with experiences of suffering. The work organization causes more suffering than the social and professional relationships. Working conditions have proved to be precarious for the design of jobs, which contributes to the destruction of public relations in organizations and may bring about undesirable consequences to the quality of services rendered to society. Finally, we emphasize the defensive strategies of employees on probation who, for fear of unemployment, unquestioningly cooperate with the higher authorities, remain silent due to the fear and coercion

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