Relações de poder no contexto laboral: um estudo sobre experiências de exercício de poder na relação entre um grupo de funcionários do Clube de Desportos da Maxaquene

Abstract

The present work analyzes the exercise of power in the work context. From the analyzed literature identified an approach that advocates power as something that certain people have and exercise at the expense of others lacking it and another that argues that power flows and is built on social relationship. This literature allows us to understand extreme situations of exercise of power in which some exercise power and others only obey, but also situations in which which it is fluid and negotiated in each interaction. However, despite these nuances the power in the workplace tends to be analyzed from the first and loses sight of the fluidity of the even in everyday life. In line with the second approach, I carried out an ethnographic research among a group of employees of the basketball department of Maxaquene Sports Club from the which I understood that employees exercise power regardless of hierarchical position that they occupy in the institution's organizational chart. This situation is common in the relationship between the club and between the coach, her assistant and the players in whom power is negotiated in each situation and flows, being exercised by some at a certain time by another at another moment and vice versa, which makes it possible to think of power in daily life as something fluid and negotiated in relationships. Unlike the analyzed literature that defends power as something that certain people hold at the expense of others lacking it, the results of the present study reinforce the idea of ​​the exercise of power as something fluid, in such a way that anyone can exercise the depending on the concrete social situation. (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)