Economia solidária: um estudo de caso das características de um empreendimento autogestionário

Abstract

In the economical worldwide actual context, marked by the advance of unemployment and social exclusion, the search for alternatives have become necessary and the solidary economic unfold as a possibility, even restricted, to stand up to unemployment and social exclusion, through the dissemination of values as the democracy, cooperation and solidary relations among workers, organized in co-operatives or self-management enterprises. The actual work favors the discussion about the characteristics of self-management organizations and the difference between the theory and the socials practices. This discussion is fundamental for the Solidary Economic therefore meaning of the notice of ideas and projects that provide solutions for reduction of unemployment problematic. By means of a case study, at a chemical enterprise of self-management, where eleven dimensions were studied: authority, norms, social control, social relations, recruitment and promotion, incentive structure, social stratification, differentiation, education, social performance and communication, the main objective is to collect information regarding the self-management social practices to the light of the theory and obtaining as result a new model characteristic for the self-management organizations.