Condições anômicas nas práticas organizacionais de uma Empresa Júnior na Universidade Federal da Paraíba

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to identify conditions that can trigger anomic behaviours inside the organization and understand the impact of management practices in the employee’s behaviour by the analysis of variables such as: organizational structure and support, management systems, and others. The object of study in this case is an junior company’s environment localizated in the federal university of Paraíba, Brasil, and to reach the objectives of this work was created a semi-structured interview script applied with seven employees. The interview’s results was colected, transcribed, analyzed and, from them, was able to do a comparative between organizational anomia’s theory and the manegement reality. The results demonstrate that the object of study presents points of congruence with organizational anomia’s theory, because of the reduced alignment of organizational values and the normalization of the non-compliance of some routine rules. Through the results discussed, it cannot be inferred that the company, today, is in a state of anomie, however, it presents organizational structures and systems that can trigger possible anomic behaviors through the demotivation of members. Although these conditions were exposed in the present work, the leaders who were interviewed are aware of the satisfaction of their followers and, during the conversations, already point out some improvement proposals to contribute to the well-being of the members in the organization.