RESUME The thesis 'Personal prose with an authorial commentary' consists of two parts. The first part is the authorial prose. The prose is titled The Subject: This is a novel in emails describing a partnership triangle. Jirka responds to Danka's advertisement on an Internet dating site looking for a pen pal. Although both of them are living with a partner their pen friendship grows into a love afair. The relationship and intimacy of characters are revealed through the correspondence of other people. Not only does Jirka correspond with Karel, his friend, but also his girlfriend confides Jirka's behavior to her friend Šárka. Jirka gets himself into a difficult position between two women. They then resolve the situation for him - both abandon him. In the second part of the thesis - reflection - the circumstances of the work's origin are discussed and particular aspects of the novel are reflected. In addition to the plot construction, character configuration and their characteristics the main focus is on the meaning of the work, and due to which the work's conclusion and the title have suffered. Coping with the form of emails, which is used in the novel, is also taken into consideration and the inclusion of the text into the genre of women's literature. The inability to cross autobiographical borders and...

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Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:51:43Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 3 155027.pdf.jpg: 15681 bytes, checksum: 3cf0e668e33996c65b7fc9d55a5ab7dc (MD5) 155027.pdf: 646348 bytes, checksum: e1c355afbc77a088fa9dae7d5ee94744 (MD5) 155027.pdf.txt: 302545 bytes, checksum: ddf89a9d1b7422eb4592d34ca48cf66b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-02-16T00:00:00Z / O tema sentido do trabalho é algo que vem sendo estudado por vários autores, internacionais e nacionais. Essa atenção a ele dedicada decorre das importantes transformações que têm ocorrido no mundo do trabalho, onde novas formas de organização surgem, atreladas a modificações em sua natureza. Diante disso, entender o sentido que trabalhadores contemporâneos atribuem ao seu trabalho é algo relevante, mormente se considerado que estes trabalhadores desenvolvem suas atividades produtivas em empresas que apresentam alguns aspectos peculiares dentro do contexto capitalista. Trata-se de empresas que buscam uma alternativa ao modelo administrativo vigente na maioria das organizações, que propõem um estilo de agir econômico com as características da gratuidade, da abertura ao outro e da solidariedade, apesar de atuarem, principalmente, em setores econômicos com fins lucrativos. São elas conhecidas como empresas participantes da proposta de economia de comunhão, a qual visa ao oferecimento de uma resposta ao drama da extrema pobreza das populações, que estão privadas dos direitos humanos mais fundamentais, e constitui-se, ainda, em um esforço de integração entre a gestão de empresas e os princípios contidos em uma base religiosa para transformar o modelo econômico dominante. Não se confunde a proposta da economia de comunhão, portanto, com um simples caso de filantropia ou de participação nos lucros. Assim, esta pesquisa busca investigar qual o sentido que funcionários e proprietários de empresas de economia de comunhão atribuem ao trabalho que realizam. Para desvendar esta questão, foram analisadas, a partir da metodologia de análise de conteúdo, entrevistas com 36 funcionários, 2 diretores e 2 proprietários de 2 empresas, totalizando 40 entrevistas. Realizou-se um estudo de dois casos e a coleta dos dados da pesquisa ocorreu com entrevistas semi-estruturadas. A análise das entrevistas permite dizer que o trabalho é tido como algo fundamental na vida dos entrevistados e que é dotado de muito sentido, conclusão que corrobora com outras pesquisas, as quais também identificaram resultados semelhantes. Contudo, no que tange às empresas de economia de comunhão, foi possível observar que favorecem, em relação ao sentido deste trabalho, aspectos que circundam fatores direcionados a questões pessoais, tais como a valorização da pessoa dentro do ambiente de trabalho, a autonomia concedida para a realização das tarefas e, principalmente, ao relacionamento interpessoal desenvolvido dentro da organização. Portanto, verifica-se que as empresas de economia de comunhão contribuem para o relacionamento e a valorização das pessoas no meio empresarial. / The topic, meaning of work, has been studied by several Brazilian and international authors because of the important transformations that have been occurring inside the labor world where new forms of organizations emerge and they are subjected to the changes in its nature. In the light of this, it is relevant to understand the meaning which the contemporary workers give to their work, mostly if it is considered that those workers develop their productive activity inside companies which present some peculiar aspects in a capitalistic context. In other words, these companies seek an alternative to the current administrative model found in the majority of them, which offers an economic working style with the characteristics of gratuitousness, the open-mindedness in relation to others, the fellowship, despite the fact of working mostly in profitable sectors of the economy. Such companies are known as participant companies of the communion economy proposal.This proposal intends to offer an answer to the extreme poverty drama of the population that is deprived of the most essential human rights. It consists in a struggle of the integration between the companies administration and the principles underlain on a religious basis in order to change the dominant economic model. Therefore, this should not be understood as a simple case of philanthropy or profit sharing. Such being the case this research seeks to investigate what is the meaning given by the employees and the owners of the communion economy companies for the work they do. In order to reveal which are these meanings, it has been analysed based on Methodology of Content Analysis, and it had been done interviews with 36 employees, 2 executives e the owners of each company, in a total amount of 40 interviews. It had been accomplished a study of two cases and the research data collection was done with semi-organized interviews. The analysis of the interviews allows to say that the work is considered a fundamental part for the lives of the interviewees and it has a great meaning for them, similarly with the results of other researches. Nevertheless, it was possible to observe in relation to the communion economy companies that they help this meaning of work with aspects that are found in personal matters, such as: the appreciation of the person inside the work environment, the granted autonomy to accomplish the tasks and mainly, the interpersonal relationship developed inside the enterprise. Therefore, it is seen that the communion economy companies contribute to the relationship and the appreciation of the people inside them.

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No. of bitstreams: 1 MEX2010_Dissertação_Rachel Constant Vergara Mann.pdf: 587590 bytes, checksum: b7f38e073ef5e0697a4dc14ca6061828 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2012-06-26 / The work occupies a definite place in the lives of individuals, this rich sense of individual and social, is a means of producing life of each one to provide subsistence, existential senses create or contribute to the structuring of identity and subjectivity. The current status of adoption and use of Information and Communication Technologies by organizations and individuals, showed an increase of the incorporation of technological devices that have the potential to change the spatial and temporal characteristics of the work, increasing worker mobility. Considering the fact that the individual to move, while moving through space, remodeling or attach your personal identity, professional, cultural, social or political from the mobility, the ultimate goal of this research was to reflect on that how the positive and negative impacts generated by the intense geographic mobility demanded by the profession, teachers are perceived by workers of a post-graduation courses in Business Administration moving from one territory to another (s), in order to exercise their teaching activities. Was performed for both a literature review concerning the meaning of work, presenting the following are some reflections on the changes in labor relations as a result of mutations in the workplace, addressing, finally, the theme Mobility of the workforce. After this step, we sought to understand the perspective of teaching workers through personal interviews analyzed in the light of the method of content analysis, the paths taken by them and meanings attributed to these experiences, seeking to understand how teaching workers highlighted represent the look on himself and others, to show the significance (positive and negative) of spatial mobility, daily practices and strategies of socialization and interaction with, and at the destination. It can be concluded that, although there are some factors that can make the constant spatial displacement of these workers a negative element to them, since they are sources of high demand physical and mental, of stress, overload, emotional stress, fatigue, anxiety, discouragement, frustration and dissatisfaction with the work, leading them to the constant removal of the social context and may result in serious consequences for the health of the worker. These constant shifts geographical become, however, a positive element, since the increase to allow their teaching practices through the experiences enriched by contacts, by learning acquired and the skills acquired in multicultural relationships, becoming space for self-fulfillment, social inclusion and recognition, prestige, status and sense of usefulness. / O trabalho ocupa um inegável espaço na vida dos indivíduos, sendo este rico de sentido individual e social, é um meio de produção da vida de cada um ao prover subsistência, criar sentidos existenciais ou contribuir na estruturação da identidade e da subjetividade. O cenário atual de adoção e uso das Tecnologias de Informação e Comunicação pelas organizações e pessoas, demonstra um crescimento da incorporação de dispositivos tecnológicos que têm o potencial de alterar as características espaciais e temporais do trabalho, aumentando a mobilidade do trabalhador. Considerando-se o fato de que o indivíduo ao deslocar-se, ao mover-se pelo espaço, anexa ou remodela sua identidade pessoal, profissional, cultural, social ou política a partir da mobilidade, o objetivo final desta pesquisa foi refletir sobre de que maneira os impactos positivos e negativos gerados pela intensa mobilidade geográfica demandados pelo exercício da profissão, são percebidos por trabalhadores docentes de curso de pós-graduação lato sensu em Administração que se deslocam de um território para outro(s), com a finalidade de exercerem suas atividades docentes. Realizou-se para tanto uma revisão bibliográfica acerca de sentido do trabalho, apresentando, a seguir, algumas reflexões sobre as alterações ocorridas nas relações de trabalho em decorrência de mutações no mundo do trabalho, abordando, por fim, o tema Mobilidade da força de trabalho. Após esta etapa, buscou-se compreender, na ótica desses trabalhadores docentes, por meio de entrevistas pessoais analisadas à luz do método de análise de conteúdo, os caminhos percorridos e significados atribuídos por eles a estas vivências, procurando perceber como os trabalhadores docentes em destaque representam o olhar sobre si e sobre os outros, visando demonstrar o significado (positivo e negativo) da mobilidade espacial, as práticas cotidianas e estratégias de sociabilidade e interação com e no local de destino. Pode-se concluir que, apesar de haver alguns fatores que podem tornar os constantes deslocamentos geográficos destes trabalhadores um elemento negativo para eles, uma vez que são fontes de alta demanda física e mental, geradoras de estresse, sobrecarga, tensão emocional, cansaço, ansiedade, desânimo, frustração e descontentamento em relação ao trabalho, levando-os ao afastamento constante do contexto social, podendo resultar em consequências graves para a saúde deste trabalhador. Estes constantes deslocamentos geográficos tornam-se, contudo, um elemento positivo, uma vez que possibilitam o incremento às suas práticas docentes, por meio das vivências enriquecidas pelos contactos estabelecidos, pelas aprendizagens realizadas e pelas capacidades de relacionamento em meios multiculturais adquiridas, tornando-se espaço de autorrealização, inserção e reconhecimento social, prestígio, status e de senso de utilidade.

Dans le contexte actuel d’évolution et de transformation du travail, notre recherche s’attache à comprendre et à expliquer de quelle manière des acteurs professionnels (individuels et collectifs), engagés dans la définition des politiques et des pratiques de formations professionnelles aéronautiques, parviennent, collectivement, à se mettre d’accord sur des normes et des contenus de programmes de formation. Cette recherche compare des activités de délibérations collectives de deux groupes professionnels (l’un à dimension nationale et l’autre à dimension locale) qui ont en charge la définition de nouveaux programmes et normes de formations techniques qualifiantes. Les membres de ces groupes (27 et 20 sujets) représentent des entreprises, des formateurs, responsables de lycées techniques, des Ministères compétents, des figures individuelles reconnues du secteur aéronautique au plan national. Au niveau méthodologique, dans une approche exploratoire compréhensive, nous avons observé et enregistré systématiquement les réunions de ces deux groupes durant une année. Nous avons aussi analysé les discours qui en découlent ainsi qu’effectué et examiné des entretiens semi-directifs et des questionnaires que nous avons construits. Dans une perspective systémique, active et plurielle de la socialisation, le modèle de l’interstructuration du sujet et des institutions (Baubion-Broye & Hajjar, 1998) auquel nous nous référons considère que les activités du sujet sont construites et signifiées par lui, tout au long de sa vie, et en interaction avec autrui. Nos résultats montrent, notamment, que les décideurs prennent majoritairement des décisions collectives par « consensus apparent » et qu’il y a un lien entre l’expression manifeste d’alliances et le degré de consensus. Les relations interpersonnelles évoluent au cours du temps. / In the current context of evolution and transformation of work, our research attempts to understand and explain how professional actors (individual and collective), engaged in the definition of policies and practices of aeronautic vocational trainings, come to an agreement, collectively, on standards and contents of training programs. This research confronts processes of collective deliberations of two professional groups (one of national size and the other of local size) which have to define new programs and norms concerning qualifying technical trainings. Members of these groups (27 and 20 subjects) represent companies, trainers or managers of technical schools (private or public), competent ministries, individual figures recognized in the aeronautic field. At a methodological level, in a comprehensive exploratory approach, we have systematically observed and analyzed meetings of these two groups during one year as well as the speeches that come out from meetings. We made and analyzed semi-structured interviews and questionnaires we had built. In a systemic, active and plural approach of socialization, the interstructuration model of subject and institutions we refer to (Baubion-Broye & Haijar, 1998), considers that subject builds his activities all along his life and in interaction with other people. Our results show, on one hand that, generally, decision-makers arrive on a conclusion and a decision thanks to “apparent consensus”. On the other hand our study proves there is a link between the evident expression of coalitions and the consensus degree. Interpersonal relations change over time.

Cette recherche s’inscrit dans le champ de la psychologie sociale du travail et des organisations. Elle s’intéresse aux conduites de socialisation organisationnelle des jeunes diplômées vietnamiennes. Adoptant une approche systémique et constructiviste, nous considérons que chaque individu au travail est un « sujet actif parce que pluriel et prospectif » dans son processus de socialisation et de personnalisation. Dans une visée exploratoire, nous cherchons à montrer que les conduites de socialisation des jeunes diplômées vietnamiennes ne sont pas uniquement déterminées par leurs caractéristiques socio-biographiques et leurs contextes organisationnels, mais qu’elles sont aussi orientées par leur activité psychologique de signification du travail. Après une enquête exploratoire par entretien, une enquête extensive par questionnaire nous a permis d’interroger 435 jeunes femmes diplômées à partir du niveau Maîtrise, dans une pluralité de domaines de travail. L’analyse des résultats permet tout d’abord d’établir une typologie des jeunes diplômées vietnamiennes. Les caractéristiques socio-biographiques de chacune des 4 classes dégagées, sont en relations significatives avec les différentes conduites de socialisation organisationnelle étudiées. A l’analyse de ces premiers constats, le contexte socio-économique et culturel dans la transition du travail et de l’emploi au Vietnam nous semble toujours constituer un « déterminant collectif » prégnant des conduites individuelles des travailleurs. Les résultats montrent, en outre, le poids important des processus axiologiques qui sont en jeu dans l’activité de nos sujets, notamment l’influence du sens du travail sur les processus d’évaluation par les sujets, des effets de leur activité de travail. En plus d’une contribution pour décrire les conduites au travail des jeunes diplômées vietnamiennes actuelles, ces résultats permettent de formuler des recommandations tant au niveau théorique qu’au niveau pratique. Au niveau théorique, ils invitent, entre autres, à enrichir la notion de « sujet pluriel » dans une même sphère professionnelle que la littérature n’aborde pas encore. Au niveau pratique, ils amènent à des propositions en matière de formation et d’orientation professionnelle pour faciliter l’insertion professionnelle des jeunes vietnamiennes ainsi que des jeunes vietnamiens. / This research is in the field of social psychology of work and organizations. It is interested in behavior organizational socialization of graduated Vietnamese young women. Adopting a systemic and constructivist approach, we think each person at work is « an active subject because plural and prospective » in his process of socialization and personalization. In an exploring view, we try to show that the socialization behaviours of young Vietnamese graduated are not only determined by their socio-biographical characteristics and their organizational contexts but also oriented by their psychological activity of meaning of work. After an exploratory investigation by interview, an extensive survey with questionnaire allowed us to inquire 435 young women graduates, from Master of Arts level, in a multiplicity of work spheres. First, the analysis of the results, allows establishing a typology of young Vietnamese graduates. The socio-biographical characteristics of the 4 classes are in significant relationships with the various behaviours of organizational socialization. When analyzing those first results, it seems that socio-economic and cultural context in the transition of labour and employment in Vietnam, stay a « collective determinant » for individual behaviours of workers. In addition, the results show the importance of axiological processes which are involved in the activities of our subjects, including the influence of the meaning of work, on the evaluation process by the subjects of the effects of their work activity. Over the contribution to describe the working behaviours of young graduates Vietnamese, these results provide recommendations both at a theoretical and at a practical level. At the theoretical level, they invited to enrich the notion of « plural subject » in the same professional sphere as literature doesn’t approach yet. Practically, they lead to propose training and professional guidance to make easier the professional insertion of young Vietnamese women and men. / Thuộc chuyên ngành Tâm lí học lao động và các tổ chức, luận án này nghiên cứu các hành vi xã hội hóa nghề nghiệp của nữ trí thức trẻ Việt Nam. Vận dụng « tiếp cận hệ thống và xây dựng », chúng tôi cho rằng mỗi cá nhân là một « chủ thể tích cực vì sự xã hội hóa đa dạng và hướng đến tương lai » trong quá trình xã hội hóa và cá thể hóa. Trong khuôn khổ một nghiên cứu mở đường, chúng tôi muốn chỉ ra rằng các hành vi xã hội hóa nghề nghiệp của nữ trí thức trẻ Việt Nam không chỉ phụ thuộc vào những đặc điểm cá nhân - xã hội và đặc điểm của môi trường lao động mà họ thuộc về, mà chúng còn được định hướng bởi đặc điểm tâm lí của nữ trí thức và ý nghĩa của công việc đối với họ. Từ phỏng vấn bán cấu trúc ban đầu, chúng tôi đã làm điều tra mở rộng bằng bảng hỏi trên 435 khách thể, là những nữ lao động có trình độ từ Đại học trở lên, trong nhiều lĩnh vực nghề nghiệp khác nhau. Các kết quả thu được cho phép thiết lập một hệ thống phân loại các nữ trí thức thành 4 nhóm. Những đặc điểm cá nhân xã hội của 4 nhóm trí thức này có mối quan hệ có ý nghĩa với hành vi xã hội hóa nghề nghiệp của họ. Từ những phân tích ban đầu, chúng tôi nhận thấy hoàn cảnh kinh tế, xã hội và văn hóa trong sự chuyển đổi lao động và việc làm ở Việt Nam luôn có ảnh hưởng mạnh mẽ đến hành vi của người lao động. Bên cạnh đó, các kết quả cũng chỉ ra sự ảnh hưởng của các giá trị cá nhân đến hoạt động của chủ thể, đặc biệt là ảnh hưởng của ý nghĩa của công việc tới cách đánh giá hiệu quả hoạt động của chủ thể. Ngoài những đóng góp vào việc mô tả hành vi nghề nghiệp của nữ trí thức trẻ Việt Nam, kết quả nghiên cứu cũng cho phép chúng tôi đưa ra những kiến nghị cả về mặt lý thuyết lẫn thực tiễn. Về lí thuyết, các kết quả này mở ra việc bổ sung vào khái niệm « chủ thể đa dạng » không chỉ trong mối tương quan với các mặt khác nhau của đời sống là cuộc sống gia đình, cuộc sống nghề nghiệp, cuộc sống cá nhân và cuộc sống xã hội mà người lao động trẻ Việt Nam còn thể hiện là một « chủ thể đa dạng » ngay trong cuộc sống nghề nghiệp khi họ một lúc làm nhiều công việc. Điều này chưa được lý thuyết về xã hội hóa nghề nghiệp đề cập đến. Về mặt thực tiễn, luận án hướng đến những kiến nghị liên quan đến đào tạo và hướng nghiệp để làm thuận lợi quá trình gia nhập vào đời sống nghề nghiệp của giới trẻ Việt Nam.

This research aims to understand the value assigned to work by information workers in Turkey. Benefiting from the global literature on the meaning of work (Graeber, 2019), how work affects one’s character (Sennett, 1998), and how postmodern jobs are pushing individuals to a state of pretense (Alvesson & Spicer, 2016), I am trying to understand how the information workers in Turkey are experiencing global trends, what kind of value they assign to work, and what are some of the influences on their understanding of work. There is a growing information sector in Turkey, but very limited resources on their experiences. By utilizing the lens of the Marxist theory of alienation (Marx, 1992), this study explains the experiences of research participants in four categories: Alienation from self, from others, from productive activity, and finally the product. Research findings show that the alienation from self was heavily experienced by the research participants and the situation got severe when there was increased bureaucracy and workplace politics. Due to the increased division of labor and the nature of the information work, increased levels of alienation from productive activity and the product were also shared by participants of the research. The study concludes with my suggestions on potential future research to be conducted in the field to better understand the trends and conditions in Turkey.

Over the past five decades, universities across the globe have been subjected to powerful forces of change that have impacted their definition, governance and funding structures, and managerial practices. In South Africa, the reform process was amplified by the country’s apartheid legacy and the political and socio-economic realities. Consequently, the transformation has resulted in the corporatisation of universities and the re-engineering of the academic profession into a managed profession that brought about a changed work environment with less secure conditions of employment, more expectations and increased work pressure, with diminished autonomy. The changed and changing South African higher education environment has had and continues to have its effects on academic employees’ well-being, health and morale. Limited research has investigated the sense of purpose and meaning and psychological health of academic employees. Moreover, there is an absence of empirical studies that have reported on the development and evaluation of a brief group-based meaning-centred intervention that focuses on both the sense of purpose and meaning, and psychological health of academic employees. The primary aim of the study was to first explore the meaning and/or meaning frustration embedded in the academic employee experience, in order to develop and empirically assess a brief group-based meaning-centred intervention in a higher education setting. The intervention was articulated from a logotherapy perspective of Viktor Frankl’s system of psychotherapy. An intervention mixed methods design, consisting of four interdependent phases, was used to pursue the aim of the study. The phase one qualitative single case study was used to explore and describe the sense of meaning and/or meaning frustration embedded in academic employees’ experiences. This was used as a means of developing and supporting the intervention that was implemented in the phase three quantitative quasi- experimental single-group pre/post test study. Phase two was thus an applied phase where the intentional mixing of the qualitative and quantitative phases took place. Likewise, phase four was an applied phase since it was used to draw conclusions based on the integration of the phase one findings and the phase three results. The results of the quantitative study indicated that the majority of academic employees who participated in the study had a sense of definite purpose and meaning (MPIL-post = 114.59, SDPIL-post = 18.04) and psychological health, despite the changed and changing HE landscape. The main finding suggests that a logotherapy brief group-based intervention, with a strong cognitive restructuring component, may have a positive impact on the sense of purpose and meaning of academic employees, whilst reducing the presence of symptoms of depression, post traumatic stress, binge eating and panic. The experience of purpose and meaning in work, and adaptive psychological coping, was related to academic employees’ sense of making a difference in students’ development, the appreciation they have received from students, their freedom of choice, their view of work as a calling, the unique benefits of working in HE, meaning beyond the meaning in the moment (ultimate meaning) and making a difference in colleagues’ (staffs’) lives. Llimitations in the study are noted and recommendations are made to formalise existential analysis as a research method of meaning informed organisational assessment. / Psychology / Ph. D. (Counselling Psychology)