relações entre valores individuais, valores organizacionais e ... - Ucg

ABSTRACT
Values are principles that lead the aspirations, actions and valuations, establishing rules,
individually or socially, in order to get what is needed or wished. Organizations also have
their values, directing actions to reach the goals. They constitute the nucleons of the
organizational culture and define the organization’s success. This research had as general
goal the checking of individual values; organizational values and the Program of Life
Quality at Work. As its specific goals raising the axiological priorities of the workers, the
organizational values, according to their perception and the reason for the creation of the
Program of life Quality at Work, developed by the organization that was studied. The
research had a descriptive and exploitative characteristic and took place in a public
organization in Goiania, which provides services in the health and environment areas. It’s
about a case study, compound by two empirical studies. First, Study 1 was made, based on
the Typology of Motivational Domination Of Values, developed by Schwartz and Bilsky
(1987) and Schwartz (1992, 1994), who used the “Scale of Individual Values”
(SCHWARTZ, 1993) as an instrument data gathering. Basing on the Inventory of
Organizational Values, from Tamayo and Mendes (1999), organizational values were
raised and analyzed according to the workers perception. The technique that was used for
data analysis was setting of the mean and standard deviation of the individual and
organizational values and the Coefficient of Relationship (r from Pearson) among these
some values. The results from Study 1 indicated Benevolence, Conformity, Universalism
and Safety as the workers axiological priorities, and Conservation, Hierarchy and
Dominion, values that direct the organization. The relation among the individual and the
organizational values indicated that the organizational values Conservation, Hierarchy and
Dominion presented significant relation only to the motivational kind Conformity. In Study
2 the instrument for data gathering was a “a semi-structuralized” interview. The interviews
were analyzed through a graphic technique of Lane’s (1985) speech. Study 2 was divided
into 2 groups: the group G1, composed by the workers and the group G2, by the directors
of the Program of Life Quality at Work. The results of Study 2 also demonstrated the
presence of the Conformity individual value and of the Conservation and Hierarchy
organizational values. It still showed a contradiction in the director’s speeches and that the
Program of Life Quality at Work is about a program, which was created in the informality.
As for the individual values, the Program of Life Quality at Work revealed itself as
positive. On the other hand, as for the organizational values, the program revealed itself as
negative due to the culture that rules this public organization.
Key-words: 1) Individual Values 2) Organizational Values 3) Quality of life at work.