Ana Cristina Limongi-Françaclimongi@usp.brwww.usp.br/fea

19.5 SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT ON 19.5 SCHOOLS OF THOUGHT ON QUALITY OF WORK LIFE QUALITY OF WORK LIFE

MANAGEMENT: MANAGEMENT: an organizational typology an organizational typology

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Economic globalization,

the new economics of the digital era,

the new paradigms of organizational management,

post-modernity of culture

difficult union between quality of life and financial stability

…..end up boosting complex actions, information

exchange, virtual systems and a great number of ways of

making survival possible with

new characteristics of the ill-being of civilization.

Observing any organizational environment leads to

identifying a large amount of information related to quality of

life. There is restlessness, both individual and collective,

concerning pressure, conciliating expectations towards work,

family and consuming, stress signals, eating habits and

physical self-care, life styles, technological impacts. All of

this tends towards the pursuit of physical well-being.

These facts cause new attitudes on companies and

a consequent change on people’s way of living,

continuously making room for the discussion and

the search for quality of life within and outside the

workplace.

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This scenario of values and practices regarding Management of Quality of Work Life may be seen in a clear way especially through interfaces deriving from :

the health field, benefits, personnel management, engineering of production, ergonomics,

quality management systems, research, technological innovations,

social balance, marketing, and socially responsible activities.

The new complexity

The variety of activities creates a diffusive complex that contains voids and overlaps.

Such complex makes it difficult to spot the locus of decision on life quality related activities of programs in the companies and to the employees, family and comunity.

(What is about tomorrow?)

The typology of Schools of Thought on Quality of Work Life Management is used on three fundamental guidelines:

1. The Socioeconomic

2. The Organizational

3. The Human Condition at Work

• development of citizenship;

• responsibility and social projects;

• equality with freedom;

• environmental protection;

• sustainable development.

• extension of the processes of quality and productivity to that of personal quality;

• policies of personnel management – valorization and qualification;

• marketing – corporate and internal communication image;

• free-time – cultural developments, habits of leisure and sports;

• risk and challenge as factors for motivation and commitment.

• The biological stratum refers to the physical characteristics inherited or acquired at birth or during the entire life.

• The psychological stratum refers to the affective, emotional and conscious or unconscious reasoning processes.

• The social stratum refers to the culture and the beliefs, the role of the family and the

other forms of social organization in the work place.

The idea of proposing a typology is to locate and understand the demands in the

company environment, in the workplace and in the post-industrial society.

Especially to assess data about effort in comparison with wellness of employees.

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Ana Cristina Limongi-França, associate professor São Paulo University

www.fea.usp.brwww.g-qvt.com.brclimongi@usp.br

Tel: 55-11-30915908Av. Mercedes, 1018 , São Paulo, SP

05081-060 Brazil

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