I conducted four studies that develop and test a safety-specific model of exit, voice, patience, and neglect (EVPN) in the context of young workers’ reactions to declining safety conditions (Hirschman, 1970). In the face of hazardous working conditions, contemplating exiting (i.e., quitting the job) or voicing concerns about the risks (e.g., reporting a safety issue to a supervisor) are proactive responses. Conversely, neglecting safety concerns (i.e., ignoring personal safety in the face of danger) is a passive response. Workers may also choose patience (i.e., taking a wait-and-see approach) about concerns. In total, 833 young people participated in four studies. Manuscript 1 (Chapter 5) is a focus group study that explores the types, frequency, temporal patterns, and consequences of the safety-related EVPN behaviours. The results showed (1) most participants favoured patience if and when they have concerns about workplace safety; (2) voice is reserved for serious safety concerns; and (3) exit is very uncommon and only used as a last resort. Manuscript 2 (Chapter 6) describes the development of age-appropriate measures for general turnover intentions (i.e., exit), and safety-specific voice, patience, and neglect. The reliability, dimensionality, and validity of these scales are demonstrated over three studies. Manuscript 3 (Chapter 7) used an experimental scenario approach in which safety conditions (high vs. low), financial reasons for working (high vs. low), and being injured (injured vs. not injured) are manipulated. The role of participant gender (male vs. female) was also examined. Participants assigned to the injury condition were more likely to exercise patience than those assigned to the non-injury condition. Low quality safety conditions were associated with higher turnover intentions. Finally, females reported higher voice than males. Finally, Manuscript 4 (Chapter 8) reports on findings from a short-term longitudinal design meant to replicate and extend the results from the previous studies. Support for Hirschman’s loyalty proposition was also found. Specifically, felt responsibility for improving safety was found to moderate the relationship between organizational loyalty and both exit and voice. The final chapter integrates these findings and discusses future research directions as well as implications for public policy, management practice, and theory. / Thesis (Ph.D, Management) -- Queen's University, 2010-08-18 13:19:15.634

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The aim of this study is to explore how young people are influenced by the work society, what the subjectification process looks like and how the subject position affects their experience of them self and their agency. Moreover, this study has a discourse analytical approach as well as a critical approach to work and work society. We conducted semi-structured interviews with five youths between 18 and 24 years old. Thematic analysis and Carol Bacchi’s WPR approach have been used to analyze the data, which resulted in five themes. The themes represent different aspects of how young people form themselves as subjects of value and labour in the work society. The main findings are that there is a fear of failure included in the subject position, as well as a perceived need to work on yourself to achieve the goals that are formulated through the current neoliberal discourse of modern work society. Thus, in the modern labour market, young people must cultivate themselves as subjects of labour.

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The work contains a theoretical analysis of domestic and foreign literature on the effectiveness of the implementation of youth social projects and programs in the organization, as well as the results of the analysis of the effectiveness of the implementation of youth social projects and programs in the Open joint stock company "Russian Railways". The author identified the problems, made conclusions and developed recommendations to improve the effectiveness of social projects and programs in the organization under study. The dissertation contains the program of monitoring the effectiveness of the implementation of youth social projects and the program" Youth "in the organization, as well as the Section" work with youth " of the Collective agreement of the organization. / Работа содержит теоретический анализ отечественной и зарубежной литературы по вопросам эффективности реализации молодежных социальных проектов и программ в организации, а также результаты анализа эффективности реализации молодежных социальных проектов и программ в Открытого акционерного общества «Российские железные дороги». Автор выявил проблемы, сделал выводы и разработал рекомендации по повышению эффективности реализации социальных проектов и программ в исследуемой организации. Диссертация содержит Программу мониторинга эффективности реализации молодежных социальных проектов и программы «Молодежь» в организации, а также Раздел «Работа с молодежью» Коллективного договора организации.

Cette thèse de doctorat, qui s’inscrit dans un programme de doctorat en sciences humaines appliquées, s’est d’abord construite en réponse à un problème concret, celui du roulement des infirmières et des infirmières auxiliaires dans le réseau de la santé et des services sociaux. En cours de route, il est toutefois apparu nécessaire d’élargir le questionnement à la question du rapport au travail des jeunes infirmières pour être en mesure de saisir les dynamiques sociales plus larges qui conditionnent certains choix professionnels, dont la décision de quitter son emploi. Cette thèse poursuit donc deux grands objectifs. D’une part, elle s’attarde à cerner l’ensemble des processus qui conduisent les jeunes infirmières à faire le choix de quitter leur emploi. D’autre part, elle vise à mieux comprendre comment a évolué leur rapport au travail dans le temps. La perspective théorique retenue s’appuie sur deux approches complémentaires, soit celles de la perspective des parcours de vie et de divers courants en sociologie de l’individu qui ont comme point commun d’accorder une place importante au contexte social, aux contraintes structurelles, de même qu’à l’autonomie des acteurs et à leur capacité d’agir sur leur parcours de vie. Ces approches s’avèrent particulièrement pertinentes dans le cadre de notre étude puisqu’elles permettent de rendre compte des liens complexes entre le contexte social plus global, les différents contextes de vie d’un individu et ses comportements en emploi. Elles invitent à conceptualiser le rapport au travail comme un processus qui évolue dans le temps à travers lequel plusieurs éléments de la vie d’un individu et de ses proches se combinent pour donner une orientation particulière aux trajectoires professionnelles. Vu sous cet angle, la décision de quitter se présente également comme un processus qui se construit dans un laps de temps plus ou moins long où entrent en jeu plusieurs dimensions de la vie d’un individu. La perspective adoptée dans le cadre de cette thèse permet de combler des lacunes dans ce champ de recherche où peu d’études se sont attardées à comprendre les différents processus qui façonnent le rapport au travail dans le temps et qui conduisent les infirmières à la décision de quitter leur emploi. Pour répondre aux objectifs de recherche, une étude qualitative a été menée. Des entrevues individuelles de type récit de vie ont été effectuées pour comprendre, du point de vue des participantes, comment a évolué leur rapport au travail et les processus qui les ont amenées à quitter leur emploi. Une étude de cas a été effectuée dans un centre de santé et de services sociaux de la province de Québec qui affichait un taux de roulement particulièrement élevé. L’étude visait les infirmières et les infirmières auxiliaires, groupe professionnel fortement touché par le roulement de la main-d’œuvre. Des entretiens en profondeur, d’une durée de 2h30 à 3 heures, ont été réalisées auprès de 42 infirmières et infirmières auxiliaires. Les résultats de la recherche sont présentés à travers la production de trois articles scientifiques. Le premier article, Pour une compréhension dynamique du rapport au travail: la valeur heuristique de la perspective des parcours de vie, a pour objectif de faire ressortir l’intérêt que présentent les principes analytiques associés à cette perspective dans l’étude du rapport au travail. Dans cet article, nous démontrons que le rapport au travail est le résultat d’un processus complexe où les aspirations des individus, leurs conditions concrètes d’emploi et les événements qui surviennent dans leur vie personnelle et familiale entretiennent des liens dynamiques et interdépendants qui façonnent le rapport au travail tout au long de la vie. Cet article apporte des éléments de réflexion à la question posée par plusieurs chercheurs : par quel moyen saisir ce qu’il en est du rapport au travail des jeunes? Le deuxième article, Rencontre entre l’idéaltype de travailleur et l’idéal de travail : le cas de jeunes infirmières en début de vie professionnelle, vise à rendre compte de la manière dont s’est faite la rencontre entre les attentes que les infirmières nourrissent à l’égard du travail et leur réalité concrète de travail à une période précise de leur trajectoire professionnelle, soit celle de leur insertion en emploi et des premières années de pratique. L’article démontre que trois dimensions du rapport au travail sont affectées par les nouvelles normes managériales qui prévalent dans le réseau de la santé et des services sociaux : 1) la place souhaitée du travail dans la vie, 2) la réalisation de soi par le travail et 3) le sens au travail. Cet article apporte une contribution dans la compréhension du rapport au travail de jeunes professionnelles qui exercent un métier de relation d’aide dans le contexte spécifique du réseau québécois de la santé et des services sociaux. Le troisième article, Comprendre le roulement comme un processus lié au cycle de la vie : le cas des infirmières, traite plus spécifiquement de la question du roulement de la main d’œuvre infirmière. Quatre parcours de départs sont présentés qui possèdent des caractéristiques distinctes relatives à la rencontre entre les attentes et la réalité concrète de travail, l’interaction entre le travail et la vie hors travail et la manière dont s’est construite dans le temps la décision de quitter son emploi. Les résultats démontrent que la décision de quitter se présente comme un processus qui se construit dans un laps de temps plus ou moins long, qui implique différentes dimensions de la vie d’un individu et qui est intimement lié à la quête de réalisation de soi au travail et dans les autres domaines de la vie. Cet article propose une façon d’appréhender le phénomène du roulement qui se distingue des modèles dominants qui abordent cette question à partir d’une lecture essentiellement individualisante et psychologisante des départs. La contribution de cette thèse à l’avancement des connaissances réside principalement dans le fait qu’elle appréhende autrement la question du rapport au travail et celle du roulement de la main-d’œuvre en recourant à la perspective des parcours de vie et à la sociologie de l’individu. L’approche que nous avons préconisée permet de saisir les processus sociaux et la multiplicité des éléments à prendre en considération dans l’étude du rapport au travail des jeunes infirmières et de la décision de quitter son emploi. Elle met en exergue l’importance de considérer le contexte social plus global dans lequel s’inscrit tout individu qui, dans les sociétés contemporaines, doit s’engager dans un travail de construction identitaire tout au long de la vie. / This doctoral thesis in applied social sciences first set out to address a very concrete problem, namely turnover among nurses and nursing assistants in the health and social services system. Along the way, however, it became apparent that there was a need to broaden our investigation to include the issue of young nurses’ relationship with work so as to grasp the broader social dynamics behind some work-related decisions, including the nurses’ decision to leave their jobs. This thesis therefore pursued two main goals. First, it sought to identify all the processes that lead young nurses to decide to leave their jobs. Second, it aimed to better understand how young nurses’ relationship with work evolves over the course of their lives. The theoretical perspective chosen was based on two complementary approaches, that is, the life course perspective and various streams of sociology of the individual which all place great importance on the social context and structural constraints as well as the autonomy of actors and their capacity to take action to influence their life course. These approaches proved to be particularly fruitful for our study because they made it possible to consider the complex relationships between the more general social context, the particular contexts involved in individuals’ lives, and their employment behaviours. Thus, the relationship with work was conceptualized as a process that evolves over time and through which different aspects of individuals’ lives and of the lives of their loved ones combine to guide their professional trajectories. Viewed from this perspective, the decision to leave one’s job involves a process that is constructed over a relatively long period of time and involves several dimensions of one’s life. The perspective adopted in this thesis addresses some gaps in this field since few studies have examined – from the point of view of the actors themselves – the various processes that shape individuals’ relationship with work over time and lead to the decision to leave their jobs. To meet the goals of this research, a qualitative study was conducted. Individual life-narrative interviews were carried out to investigate – from their own point of view – how the participants’ relationship with work evolved and the processes that led them to leave their jobs. A case study was undertaken in a health and social services centre in the province of Quebec which had a particularly high turnover rate. It involved nurses and nursing assistants, a professional group affected by a high rate of turnover. In-depth interviews lasting from 2½ to 3 hours were conducted with 42 nurses and nursing assistants. The study results were presented in three scientific articles. The first, Pour une compréhension dynamique du rapport au travail: la valeur heuristique de la perspective des parcours de vie (For a dynamic understanding of the relationship with work: the heuristic value of the life course perspective) aims to bring out the usefulness of the analytical principles associated with the life course perspective for the study of the relationship with work. This article shows that individuals’ relationship with work involves a complex process wherein their aspirations, concrete working conditions and the events that occur in their personal and family lives are dynamically and interdependently linked and shape their relationship with work throughout their lives. This article reflects on a question posed by researchers, that is, how best to grasp the factors involved in young people’s relationship with work? The second article, Rencontre entre l’idéaltype de travailleur et l’idéal de travail: le cas de jeunes infirmières en début de vie professionnelle (Encounter between the ideal type of worker and the ideal of work: the case of young nurses at the start of their working lives) explores how nurses’ expectations regarding work came up against the concrete realities of their work at a specific time in their professional trajectory, that is, their initial integration into the job and their first years on the job. The article shows that three dimensions of the nurses’ relationship with work were affected by the new managerial practices prevailing in the health and social services system: 1) the desired role of work in their lives 2) the ability to self-actualize through work, and 3) the meaning given to work. This article makes an important contribution to the understanding of the relationship with work of young professionals practising a helping profession in Quebec’s health and social services system. The third article, Comprendre le roulement comme un processus lié au cycle de la vie: le cas des infirmières (Understanding turnover as a lifecycle process : the case of nurses), more specifically examines turnover among nurses. It presents four turnover trajectories with distinct characteristics related to the mismatch between the nurses’ expectations regarding work and the realities of their work, the interaction between work and life outside of work and the way the nurses’ decision to leave their jobs developed over time. The results show that the nurses’ decision to leave their jobs involved a process that developed over a shorter or longer period of time, involved various dimensions of their lives, and was intimately tied to the quest for self-actualization through work and in other spheres of their lives. This article proposes a way to grasp turnover that differs from the dominant models, which approach this issue from an essentially individualizing and psychologizing perspective. The contribution of this thesis to the advancement of knowledge mainly resides in its innovative way of examining the relationship with work and employee turnover, that is, by applying the life course perspective and sociology of the individual to these issues. Our approach aimed to grasp the social processes and many other aspects that need to be taken into consideration when examining young nurses’ relationship with work and their decision to leave their jobs. It highlights the importance of considering the broader social context affecting all people in modern societies who must construct their identity over the course of their lives.

A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo analisar os modos de interação e as relações de alunos jovens e adultos com o conhecimento matemático dentro e fora da escola, bem como as possibilidades de aproximação entre conhecimento matemático escolar e não escolar. As referências teóricas compõem-se da concepção de Bernard Charlot (2001) sobre as interações do jovem com o saber; da noção de aprendizagem situada desenvolvida por Jean Lave e Etienne Wenger (1991); e da análise da matemática como cultura feita por Alan Bishop (1999). O desenvolvimento do trabalho apoia-se em análise de bibliografia sobre a temática aqui questão e em dados levantados por meio de acompanhamento de aulas e de entrevistas realizadas com alunos e um professor de duas classes de Educação de Jovens e Adultos de uma escola pública da cidade de São Paulo. Entre os principais resultados do trabalho, podem-se destacar a possibilidade de diálogo entre o conhecimento matemático escolar e o conhecimento matemático adquirido pelos alunos em diferentes contextos não escolares, bem como a possibilidade de relação entre contexto e aprendizagem de modo que cada ambiente crie situações e artefatos próprios para enriquecer momentos de aprendizagem. / This research aimed to analyze the modes of interaction and relationships of young and adult students with mathematical knowledge, inside and outside school, as well as possibilities of approach between mathematical knowledge school and non-school. The theoretical references consist of the conception of Bernard Charlot (2001) on the relationship of youth with knowledge; the idea of situated learning of Jean Lave & Etienne Wenger (1991); and the analysis made by Alan Bishop (1999) of mathematics as a culture. The work development is based on analysis of bibliography on the topic and data collected through monitoring classes and interviews with students and teacher of two classes of youth and adults in a public school in the city of São Paulo. Among the highlight results of the study, its present the possibility of dialogue between the school mathematical knowledge and mathematical knowledge acquired by students in different non-school contexts, as well as the relationship between context and learning, so that each environment creates situations and artifacts to enrich learning moments.

Cette thèse de doctorat, qui s’inscrit dans un programme de doctorat en sciences humaines appliquées, s’est d’abord construite en réponse à un problème concret, celui du roulement des infirmières et des infirmières auxiliaires dans le réseau de la santé et des services sociaux. En cours de route, il est toutefois apparu nécessaire d’élargir le questionnement à la question du rapport au travail des jeunes infirmières pour être en mesure de saisir les dynamiques sociales plus larges qui conditionnent certains choix professionnels, dont la décision de quitter son emploi. Cette thèse poursuit donc deux grands objectifs. D’une part, elle s’attarde à cerner l’ensemble des processus qui conduisent les jeunes infirmières à faire le choix de quitter leur emploi. D’autre part, elle vise à mieux comprendre comment a évolué leur rapport au travail dans le temps. La perspective théorique retenue s’appuie sur deux approches complémentaires, soit celles de la perspective des parcours de vie et de divers courants en sociologie de l’individu qui ont comme point commun d’accorder une place importante au contexte social, aux contraintes structurelles, de même qu’à l’autonomie des acteurs et à leur capacité d’agir sur leur parcours de vie. Ces approches s’avèrent particulièrement pertinentes dans le cadre de notre étude puisqu’elles permettent de rendre compte des liens complexes entre le contexte social plus global, les différents contextes de vie d’un individu et ses comportements en emploi. Elles invitent à conceptualiser le rapport au travail comme un processus qui évolue dans le temps à travers lequel plusieurs éléments de la vie d’un individu et de ses proches se combinent pour donner une orientation particulière aux trajectoires professionnelles. Vu sous cet angle, la décision de quitter se présente également comme un processus qui se construit dans un laps de temps plus ou moins long où entrent en jeu plusieurs dimensions de la vie d’un individu. La perspective adoptée dans le cadre de cette thèse permet de combler des lacunes dans ce champ de recherche où peu d’études se sont attardées à comprendre les différents processus qui façonnent le rapport au travail dans le temps et qui conduisent les infirmières à la décision de quitter leur emploi. Pour répondre aux objectifs de recherche, une étude qualitative a été menée. Des entrevues individuelles de type récit de vie ont été effectuées pour comprendre, du point de vue des participantes, comment a évolué leur rapport au travail et les processus qui les ont amenées à quitter leur emploi. Une étude de cas a été effectuée dans un centre de santé et de services sociaux de la province de Québec qui affichait un taux de roulement particulièrement élevé. L’étude visait les infirmières et les infirmières auxiliaires, groupe professionnel fortement touché par le roulement de la main-d’œuvre. Des entretiens en profondeur, d’une durée de 2h30 à 3 heures, ont été réalisées auprès de 42 infirmières et infirmières auxiliaires. Les résultats de la recherche sont présentés à travers la production de trois articles scientifiques. Le premier article, Pour une compréhension dynamique du rapport au travail: la valeur heuristique de la perspective des parcours de vie, a pour objectif de faire ressortir l’intérêt que présentent les principes analytiques associés à cette perspective dans l’étude du rapport au travail. Dans cet article, nous démontrons que le rapport au travail est le résultat d’un processus complexe où les aspirations des individus, leurs conditions concrètes d’emploi et les événements qui surviennent dans leur vie personnelle et familiale entretiennent des liens dynamiques et interdépendants qui façonnent le rapport au travail tout au long de la vie. Cet article apporte des éléments de réflexion à la question posée par plusieurs chercheurs : par quel moyen saisir ce qu’il en est du rapport au travail des jeunes? Le deuxième article, Rencontre entre l’idéaltype de travailleur et l’idéal de travail : le cas de jeunes infirmières en début de vie professionnelle, vise à rendre compte de la manière dont s’est faite la rencontre entre les attentes que les infirmières nourrissent à l’égard du travail et leur réalité concrète de travail à une période précise de leur trajectoire professionnelle, soit celle de leur insertion en emploi et des premières années de pratique. L’article démontre que trois dimensions du rapport au travail sont affectées par les nouvelles normes managériales qui prévalent dans le réseau de la santé et des services sociaux : 1) la place souhaitée du travail dans la vie, 2) la réalisation de soi par le travail et 3) le sens au travail. Cet article apporte une contribution dans la compréhension du rapport au travail de jeunes professionnelles qui exercent un métier de relation d’aide dans le contexte spécifique du réseau québécois de la santé et des services sociaux. Le troisième article, Comprendre le roulement comme un processus lié au cycle de la vie : le cas des infirmières, traite plus spécifiquement de la question du roulement de la main d’œuvre infirmière. Quatre parcours de départs sont présentés qui possèdent des caractéristiques distinctes relatives à la rencontre entre les attentes et la réalité concrète de travail, l’interaction entre le travail et la vie hors travail et la manière dont s’est construite dans le temps la décision de quitter son emploi. Les résultats démontrent que la décision de quitter se présente comme un processus qui se construit dans un laps de temps plus ou moins long, qui implique différentes dimensions de la vie d’un individu et qui est intimement lié à la quête de réalisation de soi au travail et dans les autres domaines de la vie. Cet article propose une façon d’appréhender le phénomène du roulement qui se distingue des modèles dominants qui abordent cette question à partir d’une lecture essentiellement individualisante et psychologisante des départs. La contribution de cette thèse à l’avancement des connaissances réside principalement dans le fait qu’elle appréhende autrement la question du rapport au travail et celle du roulement de la main-d’œuvre en recourant à la perspective des parcours de vie et à la sociologie de l’individu. L’approche que nous avons préconisée permet de saisir les processus sociaux et la multiplicité des éléments à prendre en considération dans l’étude du rapport au travail des jeunes infirmières et de la décision de quitter son emploi. Elle met en exergue l’importance de considérer le contexte social plus global dans lequel s’inscrit tout individu qui, dans les sociétés contemporaines, doit s’engager dans un travail de construction identitaire tout au long de la vie. / This doctoral thesis in applied social sciences first set out to address a very concrete problem, namely turnover among nurses and nursing assistants in the health and social services system. Along the way, however, it became apparent that there was a need to broaden our investigation to include the issue of young nurses’ relationship with work so as to grasp the broader social dynamics behind some work-related decisions, including the nurses’ decision to leave their jobs. This thesis therefore pursued two main goals. First, it sought to identify all the processes that lead young nurses to decide to leave their jobs. Second, it aimed to better understand how young nurses’ relationship with work evolves over the course of their lives. The theoretical perspective chosen was based on two complementary approaches, that is, the life course perspective and various streams of sociology of the individual which all place great importance on the social context and structural constraints as well as the autonomy of actors and their capacity to take action to influence their life course. These approaches proved to be particularly fruitful for our study because they made it possible to consider the complex relationships between the more general social context, the particular contexts involved in individuals’ lives, and their employment behaviours. Thus, the relationship with work was conceptualized as a process that evolves over time and through which different aspects of individuals’ lives and of the lives of their loved ones combine to guide their professional trajectories. Viewed from this perspective, the decision to leave one’s job involves a process that is constructed over a relatively long period of time and involves several dimensions of one’s life. The perspective adopted in this thesis addresses some gaps in this field since few studies have examined – from the point of view of the actors themselves – the various processes that shape individuals’ relationship with work over time and lead to the decision to leave their jobs. To meet the goals of this research, a qualitative study was conducted. Individual life-narrative interviews were carried out to investigate – from their own point of view – how the participants’ relationship with work evolved and the processes that led them to leave their jobs. A case study was undertaken in a health and social services centre in the province of Quebec which had a particularly high turnover rate. It involved nurses and nursing assistants, a professional group affected by a high rate of turnover. In-depth interviews lasting from 2½ to 3 hours were conducted with 42 nurses and nursing assistants. The study results were presented in three scientific articles. The first, Pour une compréhension dynamique du rapport au travail: la valeur heuristique de la perspective des parcours de vie (For a dynamic understanding of the relationship with work: the heuristic value of the life course perspective) aims to bring out the usefulness of the analytical principles associated with the life course perspective for the study of the relationship with work. This article shows that individuals’ relationship with work involves a complex process wherein their aspirations, concrete working conditions and the events that occur in their personal and family lives are dynamically and interdependently linked and shape their relationship with work throughout their lives. This article reflects on a question posed by researchers, that is, how best to grasp the factors involved in young people’s relationship with work? The second article, Rencontre entre l’idéaltype de travailleur et l’idéal de travail: le cas de jeunes infirmières en début de vie professionnelle (Encounter between the ideal type of worker and the ideal of work: the case of young nurses at the start of their working lives) explores how nurses’ expectations regarding work came up against the concrete realities of their work at a specific time in their professional trajectory, that is, their initial integration into the job and their first years on the job. The article shows that three dimensions of the nurses’ relationship with work were affected by the new managerial practices prevailing in the health and social services system: 1) the desired role of work in their lives 2) the ability to self-actualize through work, and 3) the meaning given to work. This article makes an important contribution to the understanding of the relationship with work of young professionals practising a helping profession in Quebec’s health and social services system. The third article, Comprendre le roulement comme un processus lié au cycle de la vie: le cas des infirmières (Understanding turnover as a lifecycle process : the case of nurses), more specifically examines turnover among nurses. It presents four turnover trajectories with distinct characteristics related to the mismatch between the nurses’ expectations regarding work and the realities of their work, the interaction between work and life outside of work and the way the nurses’ decision to leave their jobs developed over time. The results show that the nurses’ decision to leave their jobs involved a process that developed over a shorter or longer period of time, involved various dimensions of their lives, and was intimately tied to the quest for self-actualization through work and in other spheres of their lives. This article proposes a way to grasp turnover that differs from the dominant models, which approach this issue from an essentially individualizing and psychologizing perspective. The contribution of this thesis to the advancement of knowledge mainly resides in its innovative way of examining the relationship with work and employee turnover, that is, by applying the life course perspective and sociology of the individual to these issues. Our approach aimed to grasp the social processes and many other aspects that need to be taken into consideration when examining young nurses’ relationship with work and their decision to leave their jobs. It highlights the importance of considering the broader social context affecting all people in modern societies who must construct their identity over the course of their lives.

Submitted by André Luis Silva (andre.fgvsp@gmail.com) on 2015-05-05T20:24:40Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_VersaoFinal.pdf: 1120465 bytes, checksum: 05db487e8a07db7c5e7ba86f90d6ae4c (MD5) / Approved for entry into archive by Pamela Beltran Tonsa (pamela.tonsa@fgv.br) on 2015-05-06T11:14:12Z (GMT) No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_VersaoFinal.pdf: 1120465 bytes, checksum: 05db487e8a07db7c5e7ba86f90d6ae4c (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2015-05-06T16:23:13Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Tese_VersaoFinal.pdf: 1120465 bytes, checksum: 05db487e8a07db7c5e7ba86f90d6ae4c (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-04-10 / This thesis aims to discuss the phenomenon of the ‘new Brazilian middle class’, through an empirical qualitative study within the area of the organizational studies. The starting point of the study is the following problematic question: how the Brazilian economic growth, occurred over the past decade, impacted the trajectories and living conditions of low-income workers? The main research objective is to investigate what changes occurred in the trajectories of lowincome youth workers who migrated, over the past decade, to the so-called ‘new Brazilian middle class’. The methodological approach is empirical-qualitative and constitutes a primary search strategy: reconstruction of narrative biographies through interviews. We have the participation of 42 young workers within the intended cut. The data were interpreted with the help of the content analysis technique. The theoretical lens used to interpret the data was interdisciplinary constituted by the contributions of critical, economic and labor sociology, as well as the organizational studies contributions. The results indicated that the trajectories of young workers enshrine changes and continuities. As much as their lives are better now than in the past, the young workers have not reached a proper lifestyle of conventional middle class, considering that they: still reside in outlying areas; depend on public transportation and health services; and perform cultural/leisure activities like those waged in the past. This requires understanding the trajectories of young workers are given within an objective experience of collective life whose identification of those who follow insert in it, comes from of the daily experiences and common aspirations that they have for them. Therefore, we conclude that the idea of a NCM symbolizes the desire of its founders to point out the achievement of a desired social reality in Brazil, and not exactly the consolidation of this reality in the lives of the poorest workers. In this sense, the NCM is, much more, the realizing of the illusion of its creators than the empirical finding that the improvements in terms of income and purchasing power, were able, by itself, of transform the Brazil in a middle class country. / Esta tese se propõe a discutir o fenômeno da “nova classe média” brasileira, por meio de um estudo empírico-qualitativo, dentro da área de estudos organizacionais. O ponto de partida do estudo se constitui na seguinte problematização: como o crescimento econômico brasileiro, ocorrido ao longo da última década, impactou as trajetórias e condições de vida de trabalhadores de baixa renda? O objetivo central é investigar quais mudanças ocorreram nas trajetórias de jovens de baixa renda que migraram, ao longo da última década, para a dita “nova classe média” brasileira. A abordagem metodológica é empírico-qualitativa e se constitui de uma estratégia de pesquisa principal: reconstrução de biografias narrativas por meio de entrevistas. Contamos com a participação de 42 jovens trabalhadores dentro do recorte pretendido. Os dados empíricos foram interpretados com o auxílio da técnica de análise de conteúdo. A lente teórica da pesquisa é interdisciplinar e privilegiou as contribuições das áreas da Sociologia crítica, econômica e do trabalho, bem como as dos Estudos organizacionais. Os resultados indicaram que as trajetórias dos jovens trabalhadores resguardam mudanças e permanências. Por mais que suas vidas estejam melhores que no passado, os jovens trabalhadores não ascenderam a um estilo de vida típico da classe média convencional, seja pelo fato deles: ainda residirem em zonas periféricas; dependerem dos serviços públicos de transporte e saúde; e realizarem atividades culturais/de lazer similares as que empreendiam no passado. Isto requer entender que as trajetórias dos jovens trabalhadores se passam dentro de uma experiência objetiva de vida coletiva cuja identificação, entre os que nela estão inseridos, emerge das vivências cotidianas e anseios comuns que esses indivíduos possuem para si. Por essa razão, concluímos que a ideia de uma NCM simboliza apenas o desejo de seus idealizadores em apontar a conquista de uma realidade social almejada para o Brasil, e não propriamente a consolidação dessa realidade na vida dos trabalhadores mais pobres. É nesse sentido, que a NCM representa, muito mais, o realizar da ilusão de seus idealizadores, do que a constatação empírica de que as melhoras, em termos de renda e poder de consumo, foram capazes, por si só, de transformar o Brasil em um país de classe média.

A presente pesquisa teve por objetivo analisar os modos de interação e as relações de alunos jovens e adultos com o conhecimento matemático dentro e fora da escola, bem como as possibilidades de aproximação entre conhecimento matemático escolar e não escolar. As referências teóricas compõem-se da concepção de Bernard Charlot (2001) sobre as interações do jovem com o saber; da noção de aprendizagem situada desenvolvida por Jean Lave e Etienne Wenger (1991); e da análise da matemática como cultura feita por Alan Bishop (1999). O desenvolvimento do trabalho apoia-se em análise de bibliografia sobre a temática aqui questão e em dados levantados por meio de acompanhamento de aulas e de entrevistas realizadas com alunos e um professor de duas classes de Educação de Jovens e Adultos de uma escola pública da cidade de São Paulo. Entre os principais resultados do trabalho, podem-se destacar a possibilidade de diálogo entre o conhecimento matemático escolar e o conhecimento matemático adquirido pelos alunos em diferentes contextos não escolares, bem como a possibilidade de relação entre contexto e aprendizagem de modo que cada ambiente crie situações e artefatos próprios para enriquecer momentos de aprendizagem. / This research aimed to analyze the modes of interaction and relationships of young and adult students with mathematical knowledge, inside and outside school, as well as possibilities of approach between mathematical knowledge school and non-school. The theoretical references consist of the conception of Bernard Charlot (2001) on the relationship of youth with knowledge; the idea of situated learning of Jean Lave & Etienne Wenger (1991); and the analysis made by Alan Bishop (1999) of mathematics as a culture. The work development is based on analysis of bibliography on the topic and data collected through monitoring classes and interviews with students and teacher of two classes of youth and adults in a public school in the city of São Paulo. Among the highlight results of the study, its present the possibility of dialogue between the school mathematical knowledge and mathematical knowledge acquired by students in different non-school contexts, as well as the relationship between context and learning, so that each environment creates situations and artifacts to enrich learning moments.