Ensino de psicologia organizacional em cursos da área tecnológica: o que é e o que pode ser

Abstract

The Organizational Psychology teaching in courses of technological area provides a basis for people management to technologists and engineers who frequently take positions of leadership at work. It's one of the few disciplines of human management that compose the curriculum of this type of course. Starting from a preocuppation with the impact socio-environmental of the management processes, this study aimed at addressing the teaching of Organizational Psychology through strategies that provide reflections about the social and environmental impact of values experienced in the work. The implementation of the proposal aimed: a) create opportunities for students to reflect about the influence that the competitive culture and its underlying values have on the attitudes adopted in the workplace; b) promote reflections about the influence that the values and attitudes cultivated within enterprises exert over the course of technological development and, consequently, in planetary sustainability; c) provide reflections upon the need to problematize the current corporate slogan 'collaborate to compete'; d) identify the contributions of the strategies used for Organizational Psychology teaching using the STS approach; and e) produce a didactical guide for the Organizational Psychology teaching with a focus on the values of sustainability. The work was developed with a 6 th period class of a Food Technology course, consisting of a qualitative interpretative research done through participant observation. The pedagogical practice approach was based on the STS references, using as teaching strategy the 'three pedagogical moments', which consist in an adaptation of Paulo Freire references. Such approach allowed to question the contrary values to sustainability, culturally ingrained in students, as well as their fragmented view about social and environmental effects of human behavior at work. The positive reception and motivation of students with the proposal gave validity to their potential for the learning and for the formation of critical consciousness about the values that permeate the work of organizations. As a result, perceptions and values inherent to sustainability have been awakened, giving for the understanding of formal contents a feature which enables protagonism in relation to the necessary social transformations.