Carreiras individuais: descortinando as trajetórias de servidores Técnico-Administrativos em Educação (TAEs) das Instituições Federais de Ensino de Belo Horizonte e região

Abstract

The Brazilian public career is linked to a traditional system that comprises a tangle of positions in a row, traveling along a path that expands as time elapses and as the public servant reaches the most qualified levels of his/her public function. In another direction are individuals, who in turn are placing less value on traditional concepts such as loyalty, authority, seniority or promotion, so that work, family, self-development and career can receive substantial attention. In this transit are the Brazilian Federal Education Institutions that are identified as normative, corporate and bureaucratic organizations, to which they have a technical-administrative career of the same dimension. This disparity highlights the individual characteristics of Technical Administrative Employees in Education (TAEs) and their interrelation with the career system that was developed for this class of workers. Thus, the present study, which was supported by the concept of individual career of the authors DeLuca, Rocha-de-Oliveira and Chiesa (2016), aimed to verify the level of alignment between the individual and institutional careers of TAEs servers of the Federal Institutions of Teaching in Belo Horizonte-MG and region. To achieve it, a qualitative, descriptive research was developed, composed of multiple case studies concerning the individual career paths of six TAE servers, who were the protagonists of this process. The methodological course comprised two stages, in which the first involved a bibliographic and documentary research, and the second covered a field research that was subdivided into two phases. One consisted of completing an electronic questionnaire, and the other consisted of in-depth narrative interviews with the individuals participating in this study. It was concluded that the individual career of the TAE servers participating in this study is being built with the predominance of a partial alignment in relation to the institutional career of this class of workers. In other words, the public career that was designed for TAE servers cannot completely absorb the contours of the individual careers of these individuals, which involve their retrospective trajectories, their individual projects and expectations, the negotiation format of these projects with certain actors, as well as as the objective and subjective dimensions of their careers. A relevant point that was found in the verification of career alignment concerns the existence of a dynamic behavior for those individuals who have a partial or low level of alignment. To overcome this misalignment, civil servants seek alternatives that can generate a new setback for themselves, further increasing the distortions between their individual and institutional careers.