SUBJECTIVITY AT WORK AND ORGANIZATIONAL CHANGE: sustentation and reconstruction of the employee's Identity

Abstract

The discussion developed in this paper, from a descriptive-qualitative research, deals with the employee´s subjective experience at a company during important organizational changing processes. The scope of the research is to verify how the subjective experience of organizational changes is reflected on the sustentation and reconstruction of the employee´s identity within the company. The ongoing changes in the company studied relate to controller and managers replacing, the insertion of new values and organizational innovations. Theoretically, the article presents aspects related to the simbolic in the employment relationship, to the imaginary, to the identity and identity crisis, the imaginary and the ideology in the identity construction and organizational identity. It can be concluded that the subjective experience of changes occurred in the company imply about the destabilization of the employee's identity through the jeopardizing of the friendly atmosphere, the human being metaphor as a result of the imaginary, the increasing competitiveness and individualism and the search for a professional qualification because of a new ideology assimilation.