A Matter of Justice, Human Rights, and New Ways of Thinking About Work

Abstract

This study deals with the employees’ participation in the management of a company and the protection for economically employee. The workers are first citizens, human beings looking for the fulfilment of human rights and justice. There is a legal provision in the Brazilian Constitution about the participation in a company’s management, which becomes more important as there is no labour union freedom in Brazil. The participation in the management is analysed within the social function concept of the company and its value chain. The aim is to investigate if the employees’ participation in a company’s management can enable profit, competitiveness, efficiency, and quality, without putting down the employees’ personal satisfaction, self-realization, self-esteem, projection, and motivation. This is an attempt to explain that it is not about converting the property into a patrimony of humanity, but only to subordinate private property to the community’s interests, inside a vision of giving to each one what belongs to them. A company cannot exercise its right contrary to the interests and expectations of present and future generations. Disregarding the human rights, over-consuming resources and failing to implement economic improvements that benefit the community, since the private wealth accumulation cannot oppose to the common profit.