Meaningfulness of Work at UFRN: diagnosis of the civil servants of the library counter of the Zila Mamede Central Library
Work; Meaningfulness; Precariousness; Civil Servants.
After the year 2002, with the governmental changes throughout the country, Brazilian federal public institutions faced the modernization of its workforce and institutional practices, as well as institutions from the private sector. This new reality brought the informatization of its services and more efficiency. But, it has also faced the growth of precarious work and the loss of meaningfulness of work in some institutions. In this scenario, this work had the objective of identifying the meaningfulness of work for civil servants of Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte's library counter. To achieve that goal, a field research was done with the use of an semi-structured interview, based on the theoretical approach of authors like Antunes (2008) and Sennett (2009), and more contemporary authors like Bendassoli (2014). After the field research, the material was analyzed with the use of the Discourse Analysis method (AGUIAR; OZELLA, 2006) thought the technique of systematization of the information, technique that was already applied boy Pereira (2014). The content of the analysis was divided in four nuclei of information: 1. Meaningfulness of work: the views of the interviewed about work and meaningfulness of work; 2. The importance of work and the institution in the life of the interviewed; 3. The work on the institution initially as something transitory; 4. The importance of emotional bonding at work. This systematized information was discussed with another contemporary research about meaningfulness of work among brazilian civil servants, as the work done by Coutinho, Diogo and Joaquim (2008), Nascimento and Oliveira (2013) and Souza and Moulin (2014). We came to the conclusion that like other works about meaningfulness of work among Brazilian civil servants, the workers see their jobs as a mean to obtain their livelihood and financial gain. In the speech of the interviewed, the fact that their jobs is different from their superior degree makes them not fully satisfied with it, but the team work and the bonding make the work environment a pleasant place.