Reciclando a crítica nos estudos organizacionais: as tecnologias de gestão colaborativa no contexto da AssociaçãoAstriflores

Abstract

The research developed in this thesis aimed at expliciting how the application of collaborative methodologies by an action-research can generate integrative and critic knowledge to the organizational studies field and, at the same time, contribute to a more equitative andcollaborative management of Recyclable Materials Pickers and Sorters Association of Florestal (Astriflores). In order to reach this aim, we based in the Circle of Epistemological Matrix (CME) from Paula (2012; 2015) and the guiding interests of knowledge from Habermas ([1968] 2009a). In this sense, we propose the critical reconciliation in the organizational studies, an spiral way that transits through critical, technical and hermeneuticknowledge. The starting point is the Frankfurtian critical thought on technology of Marcuse (1979) and Feenberg (1999, 2002, 2010a). Then, we presented three collaborative management technologies considered to have the potential to put in practice the critical and transformative purposes theoretically defended in this thesis: the U Theory (SCHARMER, 2010), the Dragon Dreaming (CROFT, 2009) and the Sociocracy (BUCK; VILLINES, 2007). These technologies were applied in Astriflores context, according to the methodological assumptions from action-research (THIOLLENG, 1986; 2009; and others). Results anddeployments from the collectively performed actions were analyzed through gradually wider and more complex perspectives. First, we present the empirical-analytic view. Focusing on the objective mensuration and monitoring of actions and goals, the developed project could be considered a relative success. On the other hand, by adding a psychoanalytic view to the group and to the transference relations (FREUD, [1921] 1969a; BION, 1970; PICHONRIVIÈRE, 2005, and others), the success relativity is analysed in its details, revealing its complexities. Finally, by returning to the critic perspective, these details observed in Astriflores context are situated in relation to the latent structures of reality, evidencing critical and transformative potentials of the collaborative management technologies. To complete, the critic and integrative aspects of the generated knowledge are explicited in the finalconsiderations section.