Entre os mecanismos de controle e a resistência: um estudo sobre as relações de poder nas organizações a partir da análise de charges

Abstract

This article aims to investigate, through cartoons analysis, how power relations in organizations can be permeated by control mechanisms and at the same time the resistance. Therefore, searching for alternative ways to discuss the issue, it was taken as reference some jobs that assumed that humor can be used as a source of interesting research in the field of Organizational Studies. In a qualitative approach, we chose to deconstruct the cartoons from the perspective of discourse analysis in the French side, considering the aspects reflected and refracted in the speeches. It was found that power relations are not symmetrical, are not fixed and are not eternal. They are cyclical, transform and gain new settings as the contexts but not cease to exist. The strategies adopted have resulted in a fruitful study, in order to present a latent discussion from a nothing functional analysis.