Work and Its meaningsa study of forensic experts in the Federal Police

Resumo

One of the main challenges of human resources management in public administration is to make sure that civil servants are committed to and driven by values of the public ethos. Understanding the elements that give mean­ing to their work can be a way to take pertinent action, leaving aside the stigma and misinterpretation of the relationship between individuals and their work in the public sector. This article aims to assess the antecedent factors of our central construct, meaning of work, and its relationships with psychological well-being, psycho­logical distress and affective commitment for forensic experts in the Federal Police. It is a quantitative study that uses confirmatory factor analysis and structural equation modeling. The results show that forensic experts find meaning in their work through its social utility and the opportunities they have to learn and develop. Meaning is positively related to psychological well-being and affective commitment, and negatively related to psychological distress. This study discusses the results of applying this model in light of a managerial accountability framework to develop the civil service and concludes that it offers a good contribution to human resources management in the public sector, making it possible to discuss factors that favor the experience of commitment and psychological quality of life in the work environment.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Artigo científico

Ano

2017

Instituição

Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas da Fundação Getulio Vargas (FGV EBAPE)

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Também disponível em

Revista de Administração Pública

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Acesso aberto

DOI

10.1590/0034-7612159318

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/25186

Licença

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0

Temas

Gestão PúblicaAdministração Pública

Palavras-chave

meaning of workpsychological well-beingpsychological distressorganizational commitmentFederal Policesentidos del trabajobienestar psicológico en el trabajosufrimiento en el trabajocomprometimiento organizacionalPolicía Federalsentidos do trabalhobem-estar psicológico no trabalhosofrimento no trabalhocomprometimento organizacional