PSYCHOSOCIAL INTERVENTION IN DIALOGUE WITH ACTIVITY THEORY: EXPERIENCE REPORTS IN A PRIVATE ORGANIZATION IN BELO HORIZONTE – MG

Abstract

Many impasses, contradictions, and challenges have emerged in professional practices aimed at social subjects within organizational spaces. Therefore, research and intervention practices for human development depend on critical reflection and the formulation of strategies that enable individuals to generate their own positive and meaningful interpretations of their activities, fostering satisfaction, motivation, and self-fulfillment at work. This, in turn, ensures the achievement of the organization's strategic objectives without neglecting the worker's subjective dimension. The purpose of this study, therefore, is to present a reflection on the application of psychosocial intervention in dialogue with Activity Theory as a clinical approach to work relations within organizations. The goal is to uncover fundamental contradictions in the way human labor is organized and enable social subjects to achieve emancipation and, consequently, improved quality of working life. Based on experiences in a private company in Belo Horizonte, MG, the study aims to support the argument that activities within organizations develop within a complex web of historically embedded elements that control and articulate discourse, rationalities, and subjectivities. These elements interfere in both the quality of work and the workers' lives, often contradicting and challenging the narratives promoted by development actions. The study assumes that strategies guided by psychossocial intervention and the historical-cultural perspective underpinning Activity Theory can contribute to raising critical awareness of work, (re)orienting social subjects toward emancipation and empowerment in socio-organizational relations.