Gestão por competências: a percepção de ganho social do trabalhador / Competence-based management: a perception of the social gain aggregated to workers

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2007

RESUMO

This study aims to analyze some workers? view on competence-based management as well as their perception of the social gain aggregated to workers when such a system is used. This present study has its origin in concerns with the increasing use of competence-based management by Brazilian organizations, as it has been considered a new management technology and/or an innovative tool in human resources management. The main assumption was that the use of competence-based management should aggregate both economic value to the organizations and social value to the individuals involved. Social gain was defined as a set of features that foster workers? development as human beings in their utmost dimension: as persons and professionals, and also as politically and professionally influenced citizens. The relevance of the workers? development as professionals was taken into account as well as their insertion into society and the impacts they can cause in their social group. In order to achieve the goals proposed, a case study was carried out through a qualitative research in a company located in the state of Minas Gerais. This company uses the competence-based management in a vertical way, i.e., from the executive level to the basis. Semi-structured interviews were done with workers that had undergone the process of competence-based management, Human Resources professionals involved in the actions taken, and a competence-based management consultant. The social gain was measured through categories and subcategories, and their respective analysis components were construed from a review of the literature available. The categories and their subcategories of social gain are three ? functional (career, development, payment, knowledge and cognitive capacity, conceptual understanding of the company); behavioral (participation, self-development, communication and feedback, professional accomplishment); personal (identity and job meaning; balance between personal and professional life, social interest and values). The literature review considered the competence-based management, transformations in the labor world, changes in the relationship between employers and employees, the contemporary position of Human Resources as well as certification processes of professional competences. The study outcomes indicate that the competence-based management causes contradictory implications on the workers. On one hand, it points to some valorization of the work and the workers, who are more required by the new and more complex competence in order to meet the growing demands of the market. On the other hand, this system can be used as a strategy to increase the demands on workers as for pressures on results, deadlines and qualifications, more insecurity and instability on the job, and a tendency to individualize and thus reduce the strength of representation of workers as groups. In the workers? perception, three categories of social gain in the use of competence-based management were pointed out as an aggregated value: self-development, conceptual understanding of the organization and social values. The remaining categories have a small significance in the organizations? reality and in the workers? experience, and have had negative impacts from the market and from the organization itself.

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gestão por competências competence-based management human resources policies política de recursos humanos work relations relações de trabalho

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