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The Best Companies to Work in Brazil and Quality of Working Life : Disjunctions between Theory and Practise
| Content Provider | Semantic Scholar |
|---|---|
| Author | Piccinini, Valmíria Carolina Tolfo, Suzana Da Rosa |
| Copyright Year | 1998 |
| Abstract | This article reports on a study about the best companies to work in Brazil. A descriptive research method was used and the data was collected by questionnaire from managers and employers. The researchers identified eight core dimensions to evaluate practices in Quality of Working Life. It indicates that there is a relation between the researched dimensions and the eight conceptual categories of the Quality Working Life (QWL) that proposed by Walton (1973). The results showed that Brazilian companies tend to offer benefits with emphasis on workers health plans, followed by trainning and development, good human relationships and career opportunities. I – Introduction The work world has been passing by deep transformation. Subjects like globalization, flexibility, news ways of work organization are among the concern’s of the organizational studious. In this stage of the so-called third Industrial Revolution, there are more concerns with those people who work in organizations. It happens because like same authors have writen – because are just the colaborators that give possibility to competitive advantage in organizations. Then, it is necessary to develop Quality of Working Life activities. On the other hand, there are works like Peter Drucker is who sign that itsn’t real , because the organizations keep on the old treatment related to employees. In this sense, this article has the goal of debating this question, through the analysis of the research results elaborated by Exame magazine and Hay Consultoria do Brasil. The research shows the actual panorama about companies that give the best work conditions to the employees. We will are going to analise the data showed in that magazine, surching for relations to the Quality of Working Life theory. Still we are a going to consider the possibility of disjunctions between theory and practice, given the economic, social and political brazilian context. At first, it will be showing a short theory revision about Quality of Working Life, contemplating historics aspects, main concepts and Walton model (1973). In sequence, there is a description of the metodology adopted by the analysed research in this paper, as well as the adopted criteria to do this study. Item IV shows the results and data analysis, and finally the conclusions. * ** Co-ordinater and member of GINEIT/Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração/EA/UFRGS (respectively) * E-mail: vpiccinini@adm.ufrgs.br ** The second author thanks CAPES by financial Doctorate studies. E-mail: srtolfo@adm.ufrgs.br |
| File Format | PDF HTM / HTML |
| Alternate Webpage(s) | http://www.sba.muohio.edu/abas/1998/qvtabas.pdf |
| Language | English |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Article |
