REPRESENTAÇÕES DO CRESCIMENTO EMPRESARIAL E CONDIÇÕES DE TRABALHO SOB A ÓTICA DE TRABALHADORES INDUSTRIAIS

Luiz Alex Silva Saraiva; Alex Fernandes Magalhães

doi:10.13037/gr.vol40.e20248479

Authors

Luiz Alex Silva Saraiva Federal University of Minas Gerais https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5307-9750
Alex Fernandes Magalhães Federal University of Minas Gerais https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0845-4061

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.13037/gr.vol40.e20248479

Keywords:

Corporate growth, Social representations, Industrial workers

Abstract

Corporate growth has been the object of attention since expanding business seems to evidence the success of organizational practices. However, this phenomenon needs to be examined considering that, from a critical perspective, the process implies politicization in order to avoid naturalizations and to consider the various agents and influences associated with it. In this article, our goal is to analyze the social representations of corporate growth from the perspective of workers, which was done through a qualitative research based on the professional trajectories of industrial workers in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte, treated through discourse analysis. Main results suggest that the workers perceive changes in the context and their consequences for the companies, resulting in the decision for corporate growth. However, the discourses are ambiguous, ranging from adherence to the idea that there is no way besides adapting, to combating the social effects of growth.

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Author Biographies

Luiz Alex Silva Saraiva, Federal University of Minas Gerais

Ph.D. and M.Sc. in Management by Federal University of Minas Gerais. B.Sc. in Management by Federal Universityy of Sergipe. Associate Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of Federal University of Minas Gerais. Federal University of Minas Gerais, Faculty of Economic Sciences, Department of Administrative Sciences, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

Alex Fernandes Magalhães, Federal University of Minas Gerais

PhD in Management, M.Sc in Psychology and Psychologist by the Federal University of Minas Gerais. Adjunct Professor at the Faculty of Economic Sciences of Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil.

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