Aprendizagem na organização empresarial : a formação do empregado como cidadão

Abstract

This essay shows how an entrepreneurial organization can offer education and learning to achieve the goals of the own company and, at the same time, the goals of the employees' formation as citizens. It starts presenting, historically, that teaching how to work is not a recent creation. On the contrary, its roots are found in the old civilizations. History has shown accounts of teaching how to work, training for learning how to do it or other equivalent denominations already existent in old Egypt, which was considered the origin of civilization. Greece, seen as the origin of western civilization also brings aspects of Egyptician civilization and in Rome are found abundant registries of teaching how to work addressed to different walks of life such as: workers, manufacturers and slaves. The teaching how to work continued with the same perspective in Middle Age and got into Industrial Revolution, getting to the recent years with the denomination of Training & Development (T&D). This modality, T & D still persists nowadays, directed to skills development to carry out tasks and operational procedures. In some companies’ segments, it continues being an exclusive “tool” of people's capability. However, in the 20th century, mainly from its second half on, organizations that were more aware of changes at large, started perceiving the need of a wider education. They strongly started building up the knowledge construction, which makes the difference; and is the lever to corporative expansion and market. Knowledge became the main economic resource to them. The new information economic scenery, knowledge and technological advances made them to seek for the implementation of teaching and learning as a whole. That is, teaching with pedagogical guidance that encourages the individual to learn how to learn constantly as an essential part, and besides professional aspects and the acquisition of better economic output, it also takes into consideration the individual as a citizen. So, in this teaching and learning process within an organization environment, this essay supports the idea that inside an entrepreneurial organization, it is in fact, carried out the learning turned to the organization’s interests and the citizen formation as well.