A área de gestão de pessoas e o dark side organizacional: corrupção e ética

Abstract

This study investigated the dark side of organizations: corruption, people management and ethics. To this end, it brings up the following problem: “what mechanisms are used to combat corrupt practices in organizations?” Thus, the general objective is to highlight the contribution of the People Management area to the effectiveness in the process of combating acts of corruption in organizations. Having as specific objectives: a) to identify if the people management area is responsible for the implementation and maintenance of the mechanisms to fight corruption; b) analyze which senior management's commitment to fighting corruption; c) Know the main rules and mechanisms existing in the fight against corruption in organizations; d) Identify which trainings are carried out to understand the norms and rules existing in the organization; e) understand how managers define corruption in the organization; f) learn about the process of preparing the code of ethics. For the development of this study, a literature review was made on the four contents (dark side, people management, corruption, and ethics in organizations) treated in this dissertation, looking for concepts that supported the analyzes carried out in this research. As for the method, the approach was qualitative research, with a semistructured interview with managers in the area of people management and compliance, from companies in different branches, such as: banks, civil construction, chemical and oil, electricity and technological infrastructure, both headquartered in the city of Salvador/BA. The period chosen for realization was december 2019. This study revealed that organizations are in control and strongly vigilant to remove the dark side, which leads organizations to commit ethical violations, fraud and corruption. It was also evidenced that organizations use several internal governance and compliance policies, strengthening the formal commitments assumed in internal documents, mainly the code of ethics, to defend ethics and the fight against corruption, creation of independent internal structures, to deal with matters ethics and integrity