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Many studies on labour–management relations have focused on formal cooperation in manufacturing. This calls for further research and theory development on labour–management interactions in private service companies, where cooperation practices appear to be less formal. In this article, a typology of cooperation between managers and employees is dev...
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... Pesquisadores procuram mapear traços de personalidade e valores pessoais que expliquem a propensão do indivíduo para a cooperação (Axelrod, 2011;Chatman & Barsade, 1995;Rank & Tuschke, 2010;Volk, Thöni, & Ruigrok, 2012), assim como características organizacionais que a favoreçam (Borgo, Bianco, & Colbari, 2013;Chatman & Barsade, 1995;Ilsøe & Felbo-Kolding, 2020;Maciel, Hocayen-da-Silva, & Castro, 2008;McAllister, 1995;Pinto, Pinto, & Prescott, 1993;Ramos & Mendes, 2013;Souza & Valery, 2010;Thesek, 2006;Vogt, Beuren, & Silva, 2020). A cooperação no trabalho também é mencionada como antecedente dos níveis de presenteísmo (Garrido, Borges, Borges, & Silveira, 2019); das motivações para compartilhar informação e conhecimento com colegas de trabalho (Silva, Binotto, & Vilpoux, 2016;Sordi, Binotto, & Ruviaro, 2014); da eficiência da gestão coletiva dos riscos em situações complexas (Guardia & Lima, 2019); dos níveis de virtualidade da equipe (Stark, Bierly, & Harper, 2014). ...
The aim of this dissertation has been [and shall continue to be] to understand cooperation as practice performed for and in organizational processes of agri-food alternative networks. The main theoretic-methodological inspiration is actor-network theory, thus assuming performativity in the building of the research method with the empirical field. The starting point was entering into the field, at first in GiraSol, a consumer cooperative located in the city of Porto Alegre. I understand this cooperative as privileged enclave for investigating the encounter between producers, consumers and many other actors that constitute an agri-food alternative network. Investigation at GiraSol has produced clues that offered new possibilities and, consequently, four other territories became relevant in the study: Rede de Economia Solidária e Feminista (RESF), Associação da Rede de Cooperativas da Agricultura Familiar e da Economia Solidária (RedeCoop), Cooperativa Mista de Agricultores Familiares de Itati, Terra de Areia e Três Forquilhas (COOMAFITT) and Grupo Orgânicos Mãos na Terra. Relationships performed by these five territories constitute what I define as an agri-food alternative network. Committed to an inventive method, as proposed by John Law, the methodological path was composed of techniques such as empirical observations, collection of documents and interviews. So as to avoid detaching analytical efforts from the methodological path in the empirical field, I have applied the notion of hinterlands, one able to provide an understanding on the dynamics of the network relationships enacted by the five research territories. In this web of relationships, cooperation emerges as theme and theoretical field. This research contributes to questioning underlying theoretical assumptions about cooperation in mainstream organization studies literature. It has problematized theoretical propositions from classic authors – Chester Barnard, Elton Mayo and Amitai Etzioni –, who describe cooperation as an abstract, human, intentional, manageable, auspicious, utilitarian phenomenon, preceding organizational practices. Having the network configured and having approached the writings by Richard Sennet on dialogic practical cooperation, I could then understand cooperation as a practice that is performed in the enactment of agri-food alternative networks. Research results are different from classic authors’ propositions, demonstrating cooperation as multiple and not dependant on ideas, projects and common purposes to take place. Organizational practices of agri-food alternative networks perform and are performed by living processes, constantly negotiated by their craftsmen, who are not demanded unity to participate in the cooperation process. In such tangle of practices, cooperation is political, since an agri-food alternative network is a political event from those who “stubbornly resist” and compose their world. It is multiple and full of uncommon denominators. Cooperation takes place in distinct ways, mobilizing realities and heterogeneous human and non-human authors, who/which sometimes meet, collide, or overlap, always finding space to cooperate. Understanding cooperation as multiple and ephemeral process contributes in a critical manner to the literature on the field of organization studies, offering new possibilities to explore multiple processes of cooperation emerging from the enactment of cooperation and organizing.
Objectives
This study aimed to evaluate characteristics of the work environment, job insecurity, and health of marginal part-time workers (8.0-14.9 hours/week) compared with full-time workers (32.0-40.0 hours/week).
Methods
The study population included employees in the survey Work Environment and Health in Denmark (WEHD) in 2012, 2014, or 2016 (n = 34 960). Survey information from WEHD on work environment and health was linked with register-based information of exposure based on working hours 3 months prior to the survey, obtained from the register Labour Market Account. Associations between marginal part-time work and work environment and health were assessed using logistic regression models.
Results
Marginal part-time workers reported less quantitative job demands, lower levels of influence at work, poorer support from colleagues and leaders, less job satisfaction and poorer safety, as well as more job insecurity. Results on negative social relations in the workplace and physical workload were more ambiguous. Marginal part-time workers were more likely to report poorer self-rated health, treatment-requiring illness, and depressive symptoms compared with full-time workers. Adjusting for characteristics of the work environment showed an indication of altered odds ratios for self-rated health and depressive symptoms, whereas job insecurity did not.
Conclusions
This study finds that marginal part-time workers experience a poorer psychosocial work environment and safety, higher job insecurity, and poorer health than full-time workers. Work environment characteristics may confound or mediate the association between marginal part-time work and health. However, prospective studies are needed to determine the causal direction of the revealed associations.
