Socialização organizacional: um estudo com trabalhadoras da construção civil na cidade de Fortaleza-CE

Abstract

This research aims to investigate the organizational socialization of women working in the building construction in Fortaleza, Ceará. The relevance of this research is due to the importance organizational socialization has both to newcomers and to established members of an organization, to the significance of the building construction field on the Brazilian economy, and to the growing level of women working in this field. In order to accomplish the specific objectives of this research, five analysis categories were created: history, language, performance proficiency, social integration and policies, objectives and values to evaluate the socialization degree in three different domains (organization, work group and job). As theoretical references, measurement models proposed by Ostroff & Kozlowski (1992); Taormina (1994); Chao et al. (1994); Haueter, Macan & Winter (2003); and Borges (2010) were used. As method, a qualitative descriptive field research was adopted. For its execution, interviews with 14 workers with the support of a semi-structured questionnaire was performed. For data treatment, content analysis method (Bardin, 1977) helped by the qualitative data analysis softwatre Nvivo (NVIVO, V. 10.0) was used. The results point that organizational socialization of women working in the building construction field is happening, even though some lacks in the process were identified. In the organization perspective, more knowledge about the organization is needed. Concerning the workgroup, an improvement on the initial group integration process is necessary. Respecting the job dimension, the need of training after joining the organization is pointed. For future researches, it is recommended to enlarge the sample in order to contrast the perceptions of women who play different roles inside the building construction field, as well as consulting the men who also work in the same environment to compare the two dimensions.