A formação profissional na Fiat Automóveis e a padronização internacional de trabalhadores da empresa

Abstract

Object of this analysis, based fundamentally on empirical data and documentary research, is the professional training given at Fiat Automóveis S.A., in Betim, Minas Gerais. We have tried to place this activity within the general frame of changes and broadening of aims which this manufacturer and the Fiat Group itself has set and is still carrying out on an international scale, such as "Rationalized Plant" and building up of a "Net Company" , among others. Our starting point was the assumption that the company went through an "intellectual and moral restructuring" along the process of these changes, as well as an attempt at identifying the second human nature" grafted upon the workers by the industrial process and at correctly placing the training process in regard to this context. Our tools for this interpretation were theoretical references such as, among others, Gramsci's concept of Hegemony and Intellectual and Moral Reform, Foucault's Disciplinal Power Buroway's Production Relationships and the Competence Model analyzed by several researchers. Based upon analysis of interviews, pedagogic resources as well as company documentation, we could conclude on the existence of syntonic processes ocurring within both the company and the international group with regard to their aims and the training given. This syntony, although not always in evidence, is continuously permeating the company's training process as a whole