As práticas discursivas da Administração de Empresas: análises sobre a dominação do trabalho e do trabalhador

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the discursive practices and the administrative logic that are valid in companies. We understand company as every organization constituted to explore certain business in the market within the capitalist system. It is our objective to characterize the uses of Business Administration as a field of knowledge and training of professionals to solve the problems that modernity has created to work and its work force. To do it so, we used Michel Foucault's analysis of history and functionality of power. We proceeded with documentary analysis of menus and bibliographical references indicated in the subjects of two courses of two Brazilian institutions: the School of Business Administration of São Paulo of the Getulio Vargas Foundation (Eaesp-FGV) and the Business Administration course of the Faculty of Economics, Administration and Accounting of the University of São Paulo (FEA-USP). After this exam, we could formulate some reflections as results: Business Administration is the science of demonstration; that which is product of a practice in reality or is produced in it becomes scientific