ORGANIZATIONAL CULTURE AND WORKING CONDITIONS: IMPACT OF CONTRACTING A UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL WITH EBSERH
organizational culture, working conditions, contract, hospital.
Organizational culture is an essential concept to the construction of organizational structures that is reflected in its organizational charts, it is the basis of the organization. The strength of a culture is to legitimize shared beliefs and values among members of an organization. Working conditions are a set of situations in which work activities are developed, focusing expressively on both the work experience and the dynamics of the relationships in the context in which the worker operates. The present study questions how organizational culture and working conditions are related and aims to evaluate if the organizational culture and working conditions were impacted after the contracting of a University Hospital with EBSERH. Given the importance of hospital work for society, and this work to meet the expectations of quality health care, this research is justified by the theoretical and empirical contribution that can add to the studies on working conditions and culture in hospitals. From the point of view of the practical contribution to public management, the subsidies generated by the understanding of the organizational culture and its relation with the working conditions in the hospital under study can contribute to the improvement of managerial processes and organizational behavior in hospitals contracted with EBSERH and those that will still be assigned to management by that company. This is an exploratory and descriptive qualitative approach, which is still a case study. And as participants of the study, the nursing professionals who carry out their activities in this context and have a formal working relationship with UFRN. It is considered that the analysis of the data will have qualitative approach, being carried out content analysis according to the one proposed by Bardin (1999).