Professional development/involvement and activity: clues to think about the formation and development of competencies in the federal civil service

Abstract

In this article we intend to reflect on the actions concerning education and development of professional competencies in the context of federal civil service. To assist in this discussion, the perspective of labor as activity was used, based on ergology, activity ergonomy, and activity clinic, intending to state that in order to develop/involve people in work is necessary to consider not only its prescribed rules, but also the strategies the worker develops to handle unforeseen work situations that, multiple times, are not seen or registered. We believe that to disregard work experience in educational actions may create errors in people development policies management. To illustrate this discussion we present the education work report of a group of technical-administrative servers of Rio de Janeiro federal school, based on the devices named Meetings about Work.