Assédio em instituição de ensino pública brasileira: um estudo multidimensional

Abstract

The objective of this study was to analyze how public servants of an educational institution perceive harassment from a multidimensional perspective. Studies that prioritize different aspects of the phenomenon were identified, such as economic-organizational, institutional-legal and cultural, in addition to the usually prioritized, interpersonal, which directly involves harassers and harassed people. Such interfaces are useful in the understanding of the phenomenon in the observed locus, taking into account peculiarities of the Brazilian public sector, especially in educational institutions. The qualitative research was guided by ten interviews, whose data were submitted to the content analysis technique. It was noticed that the roots of harassment (moral or sexual) transcend personal and professional aspects in the harasser-harassed relationship, making other dimensions present in the reports that indicate how deep certain causes can be, in addition to their connections with each other, bringing theoretical-conceptual advances in the study of the phenomenon, as well as other contributions of a pragmatic nature. The need to rethink and expand the organizational and institutional responsibilities related to the phenomenon is emphasized, based on knowledge and recognition of other practices, similar and/or different, in the most diverse organizational contexts.