Banca de DEFESA: Marizaura Reis de Souza Camões

Uma banca de DEFESA de DOUTORADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : Marizaura Reis de Souza Camões
DATE: 29/09/2022
TIME: 09:30
LOCAL: PPGA
TITLE:

BACKGROUND AND INTERVENTIONS FOR WORK ENGAGEMENT IN THE BRAZILIAN FEDERAL PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

KEY WORDS:

Work engagement, engagement antecedents, federal civil servants, public sector.

PAGES: 170
BIG AREA: Ciências Sociais Aplicadas
AREA: Administração
SUMMARY:

Work engagement is a construct of the organizational behavior field and has been studied by different knowledge fields, including public administration. Work engagement involves a positive, fulfilling, work-related state of mind characterized by vigor, dedication, and absorption. It is currently considered one of the most robust predictors of individual performance at work. Low engagement, in turn, is a predictor of illness and turnover in organizations. Assuming the premise of the work engagement concept relevance in the public context, this thesis was motivated by two research questions: what influences civil servants' work engagement in public organizations? And how is it possible to increase the civil servants' work engagement in these organizations? To answer them, four objectives were defined: i. explore the theme of work engagement through an analysis of national production to understand the Brazilian context state of the art, especially in the public sector; ii. to identify the variables that affect the work engagement of Brazilian federal civil servants, based on the perception of specialists and the civil servant’s life stories; iii. identify possibilities of work engagement intervention - considering the literature findings and listening to specialists and civil servants; and iv. running experiment to verify the work engagement interventions effect. To achieve the objectives, the thesis was built by articles, being one theoretical, two qualitative studies, and an experiment, using as research methods, respectively, systematic review, focus groups, life stories, cognitive mappings, and vignettes. The thesis mapped the Brazilian state of the art in studies and highlighted relevant gaps to be filled; confirmed the relevant antecedent’s presence in the scientific production and mapped specific variables of the Brazilian context, such as the continuity of projects; tested the Job Demands-Resources (JDR) model in the Brazilian public sector context, highlighting important hindrance demands and resources in the work engagement and disengagement cycles. In addition, the thesis proposed a set of managerial interventions aimed at increasing work engagement, such as, for example, reducing investment in individual performance appraisal and expanding the emphasis on measuring project results and using it as a criterion for promotion in the public sector. The studies thesis results also allowed the formulation of a broad research agenda to be developed in the national context.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externo à Instituição - JOÃO ABREU DE FARIA BILHIM - ULisboa
Presidente - 2518430 - ADALMIR DE OLIVEIRA GOMES
Interno - 2562975 - DIEGO MOTA VIEIRA
Externa à Instituição - GABRIELA LOTTA - FGV
Externo ao Programa - 1548906 - RONALDO PILATI RODRIGUES