Transição de carreira para o trabalho artesanal

Abstract

In the past few years the number of people dissatisfied with their jobs in conventional organizations has increased. Among other consequences, such dissatisfaction has led many people to somatization and the desire to make a career transition. It was identified that handcraft work has been an option when it comes to professional career transition of those who are linked to the conventional management model. Working on alternatives cores the person can act autonomously, performing their work with excellence and identifying themselves in it, exercising their creativity and having the limit of production capacity of your own hands. Facing this, it can be considered the logic of hand work as an alternative to the logic dominant management system that, based on technical primacy, requires doing always more, always faster, with the same means avaliable and even with less effective, demanding from workers more efficiency and productivity. Some organizations embrace premise of producing always more só much that demand more from their employees than their physical or mental condition can handle, and this has caused a career transition process from the conventional management mode to the artisanal to work. The general objective of this study is to analyze the career transition process from the conventional model to a artisanal work. More specifically, in this research: (1) Describe the characteristics of current engagement of artisanal work of the subjects studied; (2) Describe the professional trajectory of the cases analyzed before engaging in artisanal work; and (3) Analyze the career transition process seeking to recognize the theoretical categories that explain change and engagement with artisanal hand work. For these porpouses theories about career and transition were reviewed, as well as the definitions of Craft Work in Sennett (2009) and other contemporary authors. As a theoretical background to this theme studies were highliged on unconventional organizations. That said, qualitative research was carried out using interviews in depth and data were analyzed according to Creswell (2011). The results demonstrated that it is possible to recognize four theoretical categories that explain the process of change, namely the loss of meaning in employment conventional that is tensioned with desires and personal characteristics, being driven by catalysts, externalities that culminate in the process of career transition gaining new meaning in engagement with handmade work.