Abstract
Abstract The present work aims to identify the thematic cores concerning employees’ representations of well-being and ill-being at work in a Brazilian public company. Data were collected using open-ended questions from the Quality of Work Life Assessment Questionnaire. 5,833 workers participated in the study and were predominantly male (62%), with a mean age of 46.7 (SD = 11.61), married (58.7%), and with higher education (37.17%). We used the software Alceste for data treatment. The results revealed that the main sources of ill-being at work was bureaucratic labor organization (25%) and of well-being at work was importance and meaningfulness of work (24%). Organizational management is at the origin of ill-being at work and must be the object of corporate changes.
Highlights
The present work aims to identify the thematic cores concerning employees’ representations of well-being and ill-being at work in a Brazilian public company
Taking this scenario of change as a reference, the general objective of this research was to map the main sources of well-being and ill-being at work based on the perceptions of workers of a Brazilian public company
A case study is characterized by preserving the unitary character of the phenomenon without separating it from its context, investigating it in loco and in depth (Gil, 2009). Such a methodological perspective is aligned with the research design advocated in the AEA_QWL insofar as this approach is based on the epistemological assumption that the nature of the object drives the choice of study design and the use of more appropriate instrumentation rather than the reverse (Amalberti et al, 1991; Guerin et al, 2001)
Summary
The present work aims to identify the thematic cores concerning employees’ representations of well-being and ill-being at work in a Brazilian public company. Todeschini and Ferreira (2013) and Araújo (2010) point out that in the last fifty years an extensive set of occupational and work-related diseases has emerged as an effect and consequence of lasting experiences of ill-being at work, highlighting increasing numbers of occupational accidents, general trauma, musculoskeletal disorders, mental disorders, and burnout. This scenario in itself serves as a justification for discussing and investigating malaise at work and its impacts on workers. Studies have shown the impacts of productive restructuring on workers, which suggests a close relationship between these impacts and ill-being at work
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