This study explores employee welfare and working conditions in relation to ethical HRM practices from the employees’ perspective in the Bangladeshi Ready-Made Garment (RMG) sector. This research is inspired by the need to understand the challenges that employees face in their practical work settings and the unfair Human Resource Management (HRM) process that they experience in their work. The interpretivist philosophical approach and the qualitative research approach have been adopted in this research study, while the semi-structured interview method has been applied for primary-data collection. A total of 25 semi-structured interviews with General Employees, Informal Representative Leaders, Employees, Middle and Senior Managers have been undertaken in this process. Five focus-group discussions have also been applied to corroborate the data generated from the 25 semi-structured interviews. The case-study strategy has also been implemented as a research strategy and thematic analysis has been applied to the data-analysis process. The findings of this research study show the need for deeper understanding and application of ethical HRM practices in particular national and sectoral contexts, specifically in the Bangladeshi RMG sector. These ethical HRM practices include, but are not limited to, the initiation of rights-based understanding and respect-based perception, the inclusion of welfare facilities, the implementation of a fair payment policy, the equitable recruitment and selection policy, and the initiation and equality of training and development facilities. These new ethical understandings contribute to the field of ethical HRM in the context of the development of employee welfare and decent working conditions in this sector.

Esta pesquisa tem como objetivo geral descrever o tipo de trabalho oferecido por duas Cooperativas de Trabalho Associado à luz do conceito de Trabalho Decente postulado pela Organização Internacional do Trabalho. Com este intuito, se buscou descrever o conceito de flexibilidade na produção, as modalidades que esta apresenta, bem como a precarização das condições no trabalho que gera. Posteriormente, se apresenta o cooperativismo, e em especial as Cooperativas de Trabalho Associado CTAs- como alternativa para contrabalancear a flexibilização do mercado de trabalho. Na seqüência, se expõe o conceito de Trabalho Decente como ferramenta que permite identificar a existência de precariedade no trabalho, e seu instrumento para a análise do nível micro. Os dados desta pesquisa foram coletados e sistematizados sob a ótica do Trabalho Decente, cuja diretriz se fundamenta nos sete tipos de segurança indicados pela Organização Internacional do Trabalho. A investigação teve como eixo principal o estudo de caso de duas cooperativas de Trabalho Associado nas cidades de Medellín Colômbia- e São Paulo Brasil. Foi uma investigação de tipo descritiva, com dados coletados por meio de pesquisa bibliográfica e aplicação da Pesquisa de Segurança das Pessoas ESP. Com relação ao tipo de trabalho exercido em ambas as cooperativas analisadas, dada a heterogeneidade dos resultados, conclui-se pela impossibilidade de se afirmar de maneira categórica de tratar-se de Trabalho Decente ou Precário, sendo necessária uma conclusão específica para cada um dos tipos de segurança. / The general objective of this research is to describe the sort of work offered by two associated work cooperatives under the concept of Decent Labor proposed by the International Labor Organization. With this intention, we want to describe de concept of flexibility in production and the existing modalities to the cooperativism, especially the Associated Labor Cooperatives -ALC- as an alternative for balancing the flexibilization of the labor market. Therefore, the concept of labor is presented as a tool that helps us to identify the existence of precariousness in the work and as an instrument for analysis at the micro level. The collected data was processed and presented under the perspective of decent labor, whose guideline is based on the seven types of safety identified by the International Labor Organization. The core of this research was the study case of two Associated Work Cooperatives in the cities of Medellin, Colombia, and Sao Paulo, Brazil. It was a descriptive investigation with data collected through Bibliographic research and application of the People\'s Security Survey -PSS-. Regarding type of labor in both of the analyzed cooperatives, and given the heterogeneity of the results, we conclude the impossibility to affirm categorically whether it is a decent or precarious work, since is necessary a specific conclusion for each kind of security.

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:29:23Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Victor Hugo Nazario Stuchi.pdf: 1074011 bytes, checksum: b207f8a4c427a2f2c29328a2b3eac392 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-06-19 / Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico / The choice of the theme for this Dissertation Decent Work has arisen from the certainty that every worker has the fundamental right a work clerked in the same conditions. Therefore, considered to be the decent work as a productive and adequately remunerated work, performed in conditions of freedom, equity, and security without any form of discrimination, and able to guarantee a dignified life for all people living in their work. The possibility of being able to reach an ideal decent work is captured in four strategic objectives: employment and income opportunities for men and women, fundamental principles and rights standards; extension of the social protection and social security; and promotion of the social dialogue. To develop the theme, discussing the history of human labor and labor law, examining the context in which the International Labor Organization was created. Also, look through the study of national and foreign doctrine the concept of decent work, discusses its characteristics. Finally, address the effectiveness of the theme. We hope that this work may contribute to better study, development and implementation of decent work / A escolha do tema da presente dissertação Trabalho Decente surgiu a partir da convicção de que todo trabalhador tem o direito fundamental ao trabalho. Para tanto, analisou-se o trabalho decente como um trabalho produtivo, remunerado de forma digna e exercido em condições de liberdade, eqüidade, e segurança, sem quaisquer formas de discriminação, e capaz de garantir uma vida digna a todas as pessoas que vivem de seu trabalho. A possibilidade de se atingir o ideal de um trabalho decente é substanciado em quatro objetivos estratégicos: criação de emprego de qualidade para homens e mulheres, respeito aos princípios e direitos fundamentais no trabalho, extensão da proteção social e promoção e fortalecimento do diálogo social. Para o desenvolvimento do tema, analisamos o histórico do trabalho humano e do Direito do Trabalho, verificando o contexto em que a Organização Internacional do Trabalho foi criada. Além disso, examinamos através do estudo de doutrina nacional e estrangeirada o conceito de trabalho decente, discorrendo sobre suas particularidades. Por fim, abordamos a efetividade do tema. Esperamos que o presente trabalho possa contribuir para o melhor estudo, desenvolvimento e aplicação do trabalho decente

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-26T20:48:30Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Claudemir Ramos da Silva Sugahara.pdf: 873046 bytes, checksum: cbeebd8e5e0fa752fb3ec98f9a87569f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2010-10-15 / This research discusses the relationship between development and environ-ment, aiming to define and quantify the Green Jobs in Brazil. In order to achieve this goal, concepts of development and sustainable development were approached and politics for implementation of strategies for environmentally sustainable growth were presented. It was also observed that, tied to the notion of "development", the notion of "sustainability" redefines the former one, even implying a change in the pre-analytic vision of the economy. In fact, the green economy needs the scale of the traditional economy resizing it as a subsystem of a larger system, namely the envi-ronment, which leads to the discussion of a sustainable economy. All these argu-ments are based on analysis of the results of Agenda 21, a document that would have officially started the discussion of economic sustainability as a practice of gov-ernment policies in Brazil. According to ILO (International Labor Organization), the term ''green jobs'' refers to occupations that both promote economic progress and contribute to the restoration of environmental quality. This term comprises occupa-tions that help protect the flora and fauna, and also reduce the consumption of ener-gy, natural resources and water, minimizing the impacts that nature has suffered over the centuries by the process of transformation of factors of production into goods and services . The classification of green jobs also requires decent work, which is sup-ported by worker‟s achievements in the social protection of labor and wages as well as in safe working conditions and labor rights. To introduce and to subsume Green Jobs in Brazil, the best data about jobs are provided by RAIS. Finally, we discussed ways to green jobs in the world and Brazil departing from the alternatives of energy supply and investments in alternative energy in the world and in Brazil, forestry activi-ties and going through buildings, transportation, basic industries, food and agricul-ture. The final remarks attempts to point out ways that would minimize the conflicts that distinguish and limit the classifications surrounding the green jobs, making them impenetrable islands in the Brazilian economic scenario / Esta pesquisa discute a relação entre desenvolvimento e meio ambiente, com o intuito de definir e quantificar os Empregos Verdes no Brasil. A fim de se alcançar esse objetivo, levantaram-se os conceitos de desenvolvimento e de desenvolvi-mento sustentável; são também apresentadas algumas políticas de implantação de estratégias de crescimento ambiental sustentável. Observa-se também que, ligada à noção de desenvolvimento , a noção de sustentabilidade rede-fine a primeira, e, até mesmo, implica uma mudança na visão pré-analítica da economia. De fato, a economia ecológica precisa da escala da economia tradicional redimensionando-a como subsistema de um sistema maior, justamente o do meio ambiente, o que leva à discussão de uma economia sustentável. Todos esses argumentos são fundados na análise dos resultados da Agenda 21 brasileira, documento que oficialmente teria iniciado a discussão da sustentabilidade econômica como prática de políticas governamentais no Brasil. Segundo a OIT, o termo ''Empregos Verdes'' se refere às profissões que, ao mesmo tempo em que promovem o progresso econômico, contribuem com a restauração da qualidade do meio ambiente. Abrange as ocupações que ajudam a proteger a flora, a fauna e reduzem o consumo de energia, de recursos naturais e de água, minimizando os impactos que a natureza vem sofrendo ao longo dos séculos pelo processo de trans-formação dos fatores de produção em bens e serviços. A classificação de emprego verde pressupõe ainda o trabalho decente, amparado nas conquistas pela proteção social do trabalho, com salários adequados, condições seguras de trabalho e direitos trabalhistas. Para apresentar e classificar os Empregos Verdes no Brasil, a RAIS é que melhor fornece dados sobre os empregos no país. Finalmente, são abordadas as formas de Empregos Verdes no mundo e no Brasil, tratando desde as alternativas de oferta de energia e os investimentos em energia alternativa no mundo e no Brasil, às atividades silvícolas, passando pelas edificações, transporte, indústrias de base e alimentos e agricultura. Nas considerações finais, tenta-se apontar caminhos que diminuam os embates que distinguem e limitam as classificações que cercam os Empregos Verdes, tornando-os ilhas intransponíveis no panorama econômico brasileiro

In simultaneously pursuing commercial and social goals, specialist microfinance organisations (MFOs) are leading examples of social enterprises working in development. Yet evidence of the feasibility of such ‘double bottom line’ management is limited. The thesis takes a comparative case study approach to investigating the dynamics of a social enterprise model of microfinance, with particular emphasis on its role in promoting employment related goals. Case study material consists primarily of the experience of two Central Asian MFOs that participated in an action research project ‘Microfinance for Decent Work’ implemented by the International Labour Organisation (ILO). Data was obtained through participant observation, staff interviews, client level surveys, and it also includes reflective practice arising from my participation in the ILO project as a consultant to both MFOs between 2008 and 2012. The findings are mixed. One of the MFOs was more strongly internally motivated to achieve social goals, and was more successful in implementing social performance management initiatives. The other was motivated more by the goal to demonstrate social performance to external stakeholders, and was less responsive to the evidence generated. The thesis also illustrates both path dependence in the evolution of social performance management, and the limited capacity of external agencies such as the ILO to influence the institutionalisation of development management within MFOs.

Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2017-08-30T12:55:20Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Augusto Grieco Sant_Anna Meirinho.pdf: 3134563 bytes, checksum: 99263cf9a24679118226c809cb207f4d (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2017-08-30T12:55:20Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Augusto Grieco Sant_Anna Meirinho.pdf: 3134563 bytes, checksum: 99263cf9a24679118226c809cb207f4d (MD5) Previous issue date: 2017-08-24 / This study describes the Brazilian Social Security System by the theory of neoconstitutionalism. This subject reveals important as a current issue and as consequence of the growing debates about labor and social security reforms that is ongoing in Brazil by the pendulum movement towards the neoliberalism. The hypothesis is that the ongoing changes will reduce the worker protection, being a mechanism of deterioration of labor relationship between employers and employees and weak the Welfare State. Being the labor right a fundamental right and that the unemployment degenerates the human dignity, recognizes that the State should creates public policies to the expansion of the employment level with qualities, which means to implementation of the Decent Work Agenda from de International Labor Organization. The study also proposes as theoretical and methodological reference to the research the concepts of the minimal existential as a barrier to the changes that implicate a social decline and threats the Social Security systemic balance. This research aims to demonstrate that the minimal existential is insufficient to reduces the poverty and the inequality, because its reductionist concept. Defends the improvement of the worker’s labor conditions by the application of the cliquet effect theory, introducing the new concept of the minimal existential “beveridgiano”, that is made up of the minimal existential and the decent work. The minimal existential “beveridgiano”, with supports by the Brazilian Federal Constitution of 1988, should be introduced by adequate public policies to improve people social conditions life, fulfilling the constitutional commandment, by the social values of labor, aims the social well-being and justice, in respect of the dignity of the human person / O presente trabalho tem como objetivo analisar o Sistema de Seguridade Social brasileiro à luz do neoconstitucionalismo. O tema se revela importante diante da atualidade e do aprofundamento dos debates sobre as reformas trabalhista e previdenciária que vem ocorrendo no Brasil a partir de uma mudança pendular em direção ao neoliberalismo. Parte da hipótese de que as mudanças em curso fragilizam a proteção ao trabalhador, sendo um mecanismo de precarização das relações de trabalho e de potencialização do enfraquecimento do Estado do Bem-Estar Social. Afirmando ser o direito ao trabalho um direito fundamental e que o desemprego avilta a condição de dignidade da pessoa humana, reconhece que o Estado deve buscar, com políticas públicas, a expansão do emprego com qualidade, o que significa implantar a agenda do Trabalho Decente da Organização Internacional do Trabalho. O estudo centra-se na análise da teoria do mínimo existencial como barreira às mudanças que acarretam retrocesso social e ameaçam o equilíbrio sistêmico da Seguridade Social. Com a pesquisa, busca-se demonstrar que o mínimo existencial é insuficiente para reduzir a pobreza e as desigualdades sociais, por apresentar uma concepção reducionista. Defende-se a melhoria das condições dos trabalhadores pela aplicação da teoria do efeito cliquet, convergindo para a proteção do mínimo existencial beveridgiano, que é integrado pelo conceito de mínimo existencial e trabalho decente. O mínimo existencial beveridgiano, com suporte na Constituição Federal de 1988, deve ser buscado pela introdução de políticas públicas adequadas para melhorar a condição social das pessoas, em busca de se cumprir o mandamento constitucional de, a partir do valor social do trabalho, assegurar justiça e bemestar sociais, medida da dignidade da pessoa humana

Submitted by Cássia Santos (cassia.bcufg@gmail.com) on 2015-02-05T10:12:03Z No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertação - Platon Teixeira de Azevedo Neto - 2014.pdf: 3511413 bytes, checksum: 741d23109355f31b34665f53e28ea88b (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Luciana Ferreira (lucgeral@gmail.com) on 2015-02-05T11:26:19Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertação - Platon Teixeira de Azevedo Neto - 2014.pdf: 3511413 bytes, checksum: 741d23109355f31b34665f53e28ea88b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-02-05T11:26:19Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2 license_rdf: 23148 bytes, checksum: 9da0b6dfac957114c6a7714714b86306 (MD5) Dissertação - Platon Teixeira de Azevedo Neto - 2014.pdf: 3511413 bytes, checksum: 741d23109355f31b34665f53e28ea88b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014-07-03 / This dissertation aims to analyze human rights towards decent work in the light of the legal post-positivism, carrying out a theoretical and practical research. The study encompasses the notion of working in an interdisciplinary context involving a historic route, a philosophical consideration and a legal sense of the value of work. It also contemplates the various meanings of the term “work”, including the antiquated association to punishment and suffering and also to move towards an idea linked to dignity, currently being an instrument for the understanding of the human essence itself, especially since the connection is now inseparable, and therefore, the term “decent”. In this context, decent work is examined from the viewpoint of human rights, including the quotation of international standards which outlines the scope of that concept. It is formulated, still, a classification containing a list of negative assumptions (cast of obstacles defined by the International Labor Organization to the achievement of an initial threshold for a minimally decent job) and some positive requirements (elements that need to compose the employment relationship in order to reach a really decent job). And finally, from the concept that decent work should be treated as a hard case, an examination is made from some judicial decisions dealing with issues related to decent work, theoretically based mainly from the works of Ronald Dworkin and Robert Alexy. Thus, one attains a double purpose: to contribute to the academic discussion and to serve as input to the jurisprudential debate about the subject. / A presente dissertação objetiva analisar o direito humano ao trabalho decente à luz do póspositivismo jurídico, por meio de uma investigação teórico-prática. O estudo abarca a noção de trabalho num contexto interdisciplinar, envolvendo um percurso histórico, uma reflexão filosófica e o sentido jurídico do valor trabalho. Contempla as várias acepções do termo trabalho, inclusive a ultrapassada associação ao castigo e ao sofrimento e a evolução para uma ideia ligada à dignidade, sendo instrumento atualmente para a realização da própria essência humana, sobretudo a partir da ligação, agora indissociável, ao termo decente. Nesse contexto, o trabalho decente é examinado a partir da ótica dos direitos humanos, incluindo a citação das normas internacionais que enunciam o alcance do referido conceito. É formulada, ainda, uma classificação contendo um rol de pressupostos negativos (elenco de obstáculos definidos pela Organização Internacional do Trabalho ao atingimento de um patamar inicial para um trabalho minimamente decente) e alguns requisitos positivos (elementos que precisam compor a relação laboral para o alcance de um trabalho realmente decente). E, por fim, a partir da concepção de que o trabalho decente deve ser encarado como um hard case, é feito um exame de algumas decisões judiciais que tratam de assuntos ligados ao trabalho decente, tendo como referencial teórico, principalmente, as obras de Ronald Dworkin e Robert Alexy. Alcança-se, assim, o duplo propósito: de contribuir para o colóquio acadêmico e de servir como contributo ao debate jurisprudencial acerca do tema.

二十世紀末世界各國掀起了全球化的浪潮，人口的不斷的增加、國際貿易快速的成長以及跨國公司的迅速擴張，固然帶來了生產效率的提高以及經濟的繁榮，但對社會同時也帶來了負面的影響：工會自由組織的權利受到挑戰，強迫勞動、就業歧視與童工的問題也更加嚴重，國與國之間的貧富差距也不斷擴大，全球有三分之一的勞動人口無法找到固定的工作，超過十億的人每日收入低於一美元。經濟貿易的發展如果無法促使勞動者獲得更好的工作條件及生活品質，那麼全球化所帶來的經濟繁榮也終將無法永續，正如《費城宣言》中所提及的「任一地的貧窮都會對繁榮造成威脅」。 　　國際勞工組織於1999年所提出之優質工作政策，即是在面對經濟全球化所帶來的社會不公正上，所持的策略作為，希望能透過優質工作政策所揭櫫的四大策略：勞動基本原則與權利、促進就業、社會保護及社會對話，以增進勞工得以在自由、公平、受保障且有尊嚴的工作環境中，獲得優質且具有生產效益的工作，進而落實社會正義之理念。 　　優質工作政策的提出至今已有十二年之久，透過國際勞工組織努力的宣導以及各種國際機構及組織的推廣，其政策之理念也逐漸普及於世界各地並獲得廣泛的共識。世界貿易組織、國際貨幣基金組織以及世界銀行三大全球經濟治理機構，在推動其政策上也開始納入優質工作之政策；國際工會組織、國際雇主團體以及公民社會和非政府組織，也鼓勵其會員國將政策理念推廣於各個國家，並且促進勞動基準及相關保護法規的建立；各國經濟貿易所簽署之協定中，也已逐步將勞動議題融入其協議中，亦透過企業社會責任促使政策得以落實於所有員工達到優質工作政策之目標。 　　探究優質工作政策，發現其核心理念、目標值得我國參考與學習，因此，本研究提出以下建議：（一）將優質工作理念落實於全國人民；（二）加強三方機制，促進社會對話；（三）規劃優質工作政策的衡量指標及監督機制，並且表揚政策成功落實典範；（四）貿易協定納入勞動相關條款；（五）從企業社會責任落實優質工作政策。 / Globalization brings lots of effects, it causes that populations increased, international trade and multi-national corporations expended quickly at the end of twenty centry. Though globalization brings productive efficiently and boomy economics, it also brings negative social effects: the challenge of the right of collective bargaining, forced labor, employment discrimination, and child labor. The poverty gap between contry and country enlarges countinually so that lots of people can not find a permanent job and over 1 billions of people earned less than 1 US dollar per day. If the development of the economic trade can not let all workers to acquire a better working condition, the boomy economics can not sustain which also mentioned in《Declaration of Philadelphia》: Poverty anywhere constitutes a danger to prosperity everywhere. International Labour Organization (ILO) introduced “Decent Work Agenda” in 1999 which is to resolve the social injustice brought from globalization. There are four strategies of decent work: rights at work, employment creation, social protection, and social dialogue. The primary purpose of Decent Work agenda is to promote opportunities for women and men to obtain decent and productive work, in conditions of freedom, equity, security and human dignity. ILO promotes the concept of Decent Work Agenda to global governance institutions. WTO, IMF and WB start to include labor issues within their policy or relevant programmes; ITUC, IOE, civil society, and NGOs enhance their membership to promote Decent Work Agenda to their countries. Besides, ILO wants all countries could lay down commitments on labor issues within the agreements during the activities of international trade, and all of the enterprises could practice the goal of Decent Work Agenda by corporate social responsibility (CSR). Therefore, this study makes the following recommendations: (a) promote Decent Work Agenda to all people; (b) enhance tripartite mechanism and social dialogue; (c) formulate the measurement index and monitor mechanism of Decent Work; (d) lay down commitments on labour matters within trade agreements; (e) boost CSR to realize the goal of Decent Work Agenda.

This thesis discusses global partnerships for sustainable development. Global partnerships have come to be considered as key tools for the implementation of certain international sustainable development goals and there is a growing literature on the subject. Nevertheless, no study has yet been done of the Global Deal Partnership for Decent Work and Inclusive Growth, initiated by the Government of Sweden in 2016. The partnership is presented as a concrete input to several of the Sustainable Development Goals, especially numbers 8, 10, and 17. This provides an important opportunity to make sense of the Global Deal partnership, in particular since it is the first attempt of its kind to unite all stakeholders on the global labour market to work together to provide decent work and inclusive growth for all. What are the goals of the Global Deal, how was it formed, and how is it being implemented? The analysis presented in this thesis is based on a literature survey, documentary analysis, and interviews with the Global Deal Partnership’s support unit at the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs. This thesis argues that the Global Deal partnership is a textbook example of a global multi-stakeholder partnership, developed through an inclusive goal-setting process, and implemented with monitoring and reporting functions.

Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-07T14:27:11Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ArquivoTotal.pdf: 689715 bytes, checksum: 3ab2d072e90156ba42ba9d44cbe18bb5 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2013-03-22 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / This work is concerned about the study of the proposed reduction in working hours without reducing wages as viable as the embodiment of the dignity of the worker, as well as a way of contributing to economic progress, this coupled with the social value of the work. For the development of this mostly qualitative research, it was used a dialectical method to approach the topic. As methods of procedure, were used historical and interpretive methods. It was undertaken as a research technique the indirect documentation, through bibliographic research. In a context of exploitation of the human labor by capital, where the question of labor time is a highlight, there is a necessity of labor relations humanization. In order to protect human dignity by achieving the fundamental rights of workers, it is important the request in reduction of the journey. It is claimed that the implementation of the measure promotes the worker life quality, allowing free time for leisure, family life, relax, professional qualification, and presents itself as an effective alternative to avoid unemployment. The topic is quite controversial, resulting in a true divergence between antagonistic forces of opposite social groups, with workers at one side, vindicating the right to a decent work with appropriate journey, that assure the protection of their physical and psychological integrity. On the other hand, there are the employers, who are against the implementation of the reduction, and allege negative economic impacts for their activities, and consequent loss of competitiveness due to increased social costs. Other countries experiences show that the implementation of the measure has not achieved the desired results as the creation of new jobs, but also did not cause economic backwardness. For the proposal to reduce the journey obtain succeed it is necessary that it be implemented by law and establishes limitations on work intensification and the overtime uses, because those mechanisms prevent the new signings and, consequently, undermine the advances in unemployment combat. The reduction of the working day is shown as an appropriate way to achieve human dignity, because the limited working hours, fair and reduced, provides the worker quality of life and enables its full development in the community in which he lives. This measure also provides positive results for the labor market and the economy, especially when it is implemented without salary reduction, which allows increasing the purchasing power of workers that are also consumers. The implementation of the measure is an important step towards the harmonization of economic and social values, revealing as an able way to put the economy on behalf of man. / O presente trabalho volta-se ao estudo da proposta de redução da jornada de trabalho sem redução de salários como medida viável à concretização da dignidade do trabalhador e meio de contribuir para o progresso econômico, este aliado à valorização social do trabalho. Para a realização da pesquisa, de natureza basicamente qualitativa, foi utilizado método dialético para abordagem do tema. Como métodos de procedimento foram utilizados os métodos histórico e interpretativo. Foi empreendida como técnica de pesquisa a documentação indireta, por meio da pesquisa bibliográfica. Em um contexto de exploração do trabalho humano pelo capital, onde a questão do tempo do trabalho ocupa lugar de destaque, surge a necessidade de humanização das relações de trabalho. No intuito de proteger a dignidade humana através da concretização dos direitos fundamentais dos trabalhadores, encontra-se a demanda pela redução da jornada de trabalho. Alega-se que a implantação da medida promove a qualidade de vida do trabalhador, proporcionando-lhe tempo livre para o lazer, convívio familiar, descanso, qualificação profissional e se apresenta como medida eficaz de combate ao desemprego. O tema é bastante polêmico, traduzindo-se num verdadeiro embate entre forças de grupos sociais antagônicos, estando de um lado os trabalhadores, reivindicando o direito a uma jornada decente de trabalho, que lhes assegure a proteção à sua integridade física e psíquica, e de outro, os empregadores, que contrários à implantação da medida alegam impactos econômicos negativos para suas atividades e consequente perda de competitividade, devido ao aumento de custos sociais. As experiências de alguns países revelam que a implementação da medida não alcançou os resultados pretendidos quanto à criação de postos de trabalho, mas também não provocou retrocesso econômico. Para a proposta de redução da jornada de trabalho ter êxito é necessário que seja implementada por lei e ainda que estabeleça limitações quanto à intensificação do trabalho e utilização de horas extras, pois tais mecanismos evitam as novas contratações e, consequentemente, comprometem os avanços no combate ao desemprego. A redução da jornada de trabalho se mostra como um meio adequado para concretização da dignidade humana, tendo em vista que a jornada de trabalho limitada, justa, reduzida proporciona ao trabalhador qualidade de vida e possibilita o seu desenvolvimento pleno na comunidade em que vive. Tal medida também proporciona resultados positivos para o mercado de trabalho e para a economia, sobretudo quando é implementada sem redução salarial, o que possibilita o aumento do poder aquisitivo dos trabalhadores que também são consumidores. A implantação da medida constitui um importante passo em direção à harmonização de valores econômicos e sociais, revelando-se como medida apta a colocar a economia em favor do homem.