Deficiência no trato da deficiência: as experiências laborais de servidores públicos

Abstract

Despite of the relevance of diversity issues in organizational studies – due to internal and external pressures that the organizations have to deal with – and in contrast with the potential benefits that comes from diversity, a lack of studies considering the diverse groups' point of view was noticed. Detected this scenario, this study was limited to one of the dimensions of diversity, disability at workplace, since this matter belongs to Brazilian public and private sectors agenda, due to the legal requirement of hiring workers with disability. The work is based on two issues about the relevance of insertion of people with disability by legal requirement: - if this process affords real inclusion, especially in the workplace, and if it contributes to reduction of discrimination practices and provides adequate work conditions as well. In addition, considering the importance of education to inclusion, we decide to investigate if it is successfully implemented in organizations that develop and disseminate knowledge – a public university. Therefore, this work aims to explore what experiences civil servants with disability live at their work in Federal University of Uberlândia - UFU and what are the relation between these experiences and the institutional orientation about people with disability. In order to accomplish this objective, a qualitative research was carried out, in two stages: 1) a preliminary exploratory stage, which comprehended, besides bibliographic research, a document analysis of federal and institutional rules that guide the University's procedures relating to servants with disability; and 2) a descriptive stage, consisted of narrative interview with UFU's servants with disability, whose objective is to identify their interpretation of the subject. Through this study, it was possible to observe that national and institutional rules have assembled the changes of the concept of disability, which has shifted from corporal restriction to social restriction, resulting in the proposition of work inclusion actions. The narrative analysis indicated that the University is in the process of inclusion. The narratives also point that, in relation to their servants with disability, UFU is on an integration stage and slowly changing towards inclusion and the organizational modifications it involves.