Possibilidades da autogestão em cooperativas de catadores motivadas pelo poder público: um estudo sobre as práticas de gestão à luz da teoria social da aprendizagem

• Ano de defesa: 2018
• Autor(a) principal: Chaves, Carlos Jaelso Albanese
• Tipo de documento: Tese
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: por
• Instituição de defesa: Universidade Positivo; Brasil; Pós-Graduação; Programa de Pós-Graduação em Administração; UP
• Palavras-chave em Português: Administração; Psicologia educacional; Comunidades cooperativas; Catadores de lixo; CNPQ::CIENCIAS SOCIAIS APLICADAS::ADMINISTRACAO
• Link de acesso: https://repositorio.cruzeirodosul.edu.br/handle/123456789/2017

The present research sought to know the management of cooperatives of pickers of recyclable materials. These projects have particular characteristics of joint work, committed to a participative management and that, recently, as a result of the National Solid Waste Policy - PNRS, received special attention from the Federal Government. Based on the PNRS Law, some municipalities motivated the created of cooperatives of pickers to attend the selective collection and, consequently, the pickers working on the streets were inserted by the city hall in a solidarity enterprise, the cooperative. Thus, the present research sought to present the possibilities of self management in waste pickers cooperatives motivated by public power, developing a study on management practices in light of the social theory of learning. For this, the following research problem was presented: how the pickers inserted in a cooperative motivated by the public power learn the practices of management of the solidarity enterprise and act to minimize the influence of the public agent so that self-management is possible? In the search for answers to this question, this study was based on the theory of cooperativism and the social theory of situated learning, mainly considering the studies of Wenger (2001) and Lave and Wenger (1991). Three cooperatives motivated by the public power were part of this study. Through the narrative interview the study had the participation of seventeen interviewees (cooperated, a former associate, waste pickers, and an environmental technician). The research also used the technique of observation, the collection of documents and photographs. By analyzing the narrative and the triangulation of the data, the results found presented the reasons that led the pickers to search for a cooperative or to remain in them when inserted by the public power, learning of work practices, management and self-management, and emotions emerged in this study because they permeated the work practices of the pickers and the cooperated. It was revealed in this study that the scavengers are in a constant process of learning. They participate in their community of practice and, over time, are gaining mastery in certain practices and in others, remain peripheral. The question of self-management pervades the whole study because the knowledge that the cooperative acquires over time with their participation in social practices makes it possible to move towards the mastery of self-management practices. This research identified emotion as an important component that affects the learning process in the waste pickers cooperatives and, therefore, it was suggested the emotion as a component for the learning process, considering for this the theory of Lave and Wenger. It has been observed that by more active participation, cooperated dominate certain practices, learn and become competent in their tasks, experience the world around them, that is, the environment of solidarity organization, and actively engage in it, and also, create personal and collective stories in the context of everyday experience, in such a way that social participation takes place in a process of learning, of knowing. Finally, this research considered that the public agent distances himself and ceases to exercise his power over the cooperative as the cooperative acquires the knowledge of social practices, the domain of know-how in practice, the knowledge that gives them the power to negotiate with the public agency, the power to decide together with the city hall the questions about the selective collection. Such power is related to the knowledge they acquired over time, which was learned by engaging in practices, negotiating meanings and identifying with cooperative activities and thus, building together self-management practices.