Autogestão de cooperativas de catadores: sua importância e aplicabilidade

Abstract

The auto-management has been highlighting significantly as a new management model with a cooperative slant, allowing its cooperates to have more and more voice and decision power about the management of their ventures. The present study aims to verify the importance of auto-management and its applicability in waste pickers work cooperatives. To accomplish the objective, we opted for conducting a descriptive research with a qualitative approach. The data collection was develop on a semi-structured script on auto-management in waste pickers cooperatives, containing nine open questions being interviewed ten individuals (Five waste pickers, two teachers and three municipal managers) with experience in the proposed theme, the interviews were recorded and transcribed to electronic documents later. As a result the research reveals that the interviewees highlighted the importance of self-management in waste pickers cooperatives as a means of maintaining the operating and profitable ventures for their cooperates. According to the interviewees, it is necessary to promote the dissemination of knowledge to the managers of cooperatives through trainings and training in specific areas, such as Human Resources and Finance. It also stressed the importance of cooperatives as an environment of social inclusion and that allows their cooperates a more dignified life. Finally, it was highlighted the relevance of a new management model that is an alternative to the classical capitalist model.