Programa RINEPE e IMBA: promoção da qualidade de vida do trabalhador PcD em empresas cearenses

Abstract

This articles presents the RINEPE Programme (International Network for Studies and Research on Leadership and Entrepeneurship) highlighting one of its shares for extension and research: Project IMBA (Integration of People with Disabilities in the Labour Market), which deals with the adaptation of workers with disabilities in the workplace and proposes actions to improve the quality of life in organizations. Among the planned actions were undertaken translation and adaptation of research instruments (questionnaires and interview scripts) psychometric criteria required in the study area, diagnostic research using questionnaires designed based on the original design in two companies at Ceará to investigate the adaptation of people with disabilities (PWD) and propose improvements in the work environment. The instruments were suitable for the collection of information and data processing. Through the instruments IMBA appointed twelve imployees were interviewed, ten chiefs and a representative sector of People Management of both companies: a food industry and a company in the field of tourism and leisure, totaling twenty-four interviewed. The results indicate the need for physical-structural adaptations and the development of management strategies sensitive to working with people with disabilities (PWD) to resolve issues within the relationship between employees and other stakeholders in the workplace that has to do with prejudice and high competitiveness. Among the strenghts indentified among the respondents the quest for professional development and belief in their own potential.