PEOPLE MANAGEMENT: THE PROCESS OF HUMAN RESOURCES HUMAN AND SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT

Abstract

This theoretical and empirical essay aims to discuss the process of establishing the area of People Management in relation to conception of man, world and society, revealing the possibility of raising the process of managing the human resources to the human and social development. Therefore, we place as a concrete reality to study this essay, the area of People Management from the Federal University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), in relation to its action as an administrative unit on its development policy and the context in which it is inserted. The Pró-Reitoria de Desenvolvimento Humano e Social (PRDHS/UFSC) is an executive body of senior management, created with the objective of assisting the Rector in his duties in the area of People Management, aimed at improving the worker’s level of quality of life at work, their empowerment as agents of social transformation and the humanization of work relations. We conceive that the area of People Management is a logical challenge. It is to live between utopia and reality increasingly close and stifling, and the contradictions and antagonisms of what is needed to do and what is truly done before the development’s tonic. Keywords: People Management; Development; Work; University.