O sentido da relação trabalho e saúde para os assistentes em administração da Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora

Abstract

The worker in the public sector is considered privileged because of employment stable, however, their working conditions are often situations that cause suffering and illness. This way, the object of this research is the work and the relationship with the health to the assistants in administration of the Federal University of Juiz de Fora. The objectives are: to analyze the meaning of the relation work and health for the administrative technicians in education, with position of assistants in administration of the UFJF; describe the historical process of implementation of the area of health and safety at the UFJF; characterize the groups of belonging, network and social support of the administrative technicians in education from the “I Inquiry on conditions working and living of UFJF workers”; identify the elements that interfere in the sense of the relation work and health for the assistants in administration of the UFJF and characterize the processes and organization of the work with focus on the relation work and health for the assistants in administration of the UFJF. The research is anchored in the qualitative approach and is attended by 53 administrative assistants. The technique of information collection was of focus group, being submitted to the analysis process of thematic content. The results highlight the importance of interpersonal relationships, transparency and participation in management and recognition through the valorization of the efforts of workers to solve problems. The engagement at work was another featured caracterisct and distanced of difunded view socially of the public servant. The limitation of the power of action, the development of activities and the lack of communication between sectors hinder the work processes, since as the service is not completed in the desired manner. The organizational aspect was also an important theme related to the process of building healthy environments. The conditions that undermine the motivation of the server and action referent to the inadequacy of the physical environment, difficulty in team work and lack of culture of meritocracy. Such elements should become focus in the process of vigilance of the relationship work and health, as strategic in the social organization of work environments. The creation of collective spaces of participation in the work sectors strengthens the protagonism of the servers and can potentiate organizational changes that impact on the expansion of institutional health and in the quality of services provided. The principles identified, although related to a singular context, generate ideas about the design of the intervention and can assume a broad character for another environment and their respective institutions.