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The social and work context in contemporary organizations is permeated by psychological domination and affective management mechanisms, which can be observed in human resources practices that emphasize a way of working with emotions that become a source of control and dominance. These relationships end up compromising the individual’s well-being and causing suffering. In the control of affections, joy tends to be instrumentalized. The individual is encouraged to develop an enthusiastic love for the organization and stimulated by organizational discourse, make it the reason for his life. This study aims to undertake, based on the approach between philosophy and organizational studies, a psychosocial critique of work relations in contemporary organizations, having as its guiding thread the affection of joy, as understood by Espinosa, which serves as our inspiration to better understand this affection. Methodologically, it consists of a theoretical essay, where interdisciplinary discussions from the organizational studies, psychosociology, and philosophy fields, particularly involving Spinoza’s contributions, are intertwined to awaken a critical look at the instrumentalization and manipulation of joy in the organizational context. Joy is seen as a source of intelligent combat, which opposes destructiveness, a source of increasing the individual’s power of action. Such reflections problematized joy both as a power of resistance, capable of helping to confront psychological domination in the world of work and as an object of instrumentalization and control. Furthermore, it was possible to understand joy as a potentializing affection for those who intend to expand their capacity for action and live their lives intensely despite the social determinisms and psychic records that constitute us. New critical research can contribute to giving way to joy not as a manipulation mechanism but as the potential for the possibilities of freedom in hypermodern management. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Life history is related to self-report from the individual's relationship with the group and society, in the act of inscribing his experience in temporality. And in this report, the political force of queer theory can make it possible to destabilize essentialized identities under the hetero-cis-normative pattern, which echoes in the organizational context when gendering positions and occupations. In view of these issues, this study aims to understand the theoretical-methodological approach of life history in the light of queer theory and its contributions to Organizational Studies. It is necessary to deepen the discussions on life history, in order to advance the field of qualitative research in Organizational Studies, considering the scarcity of systematization of this knowledge in the light of queer theory. To this end, the discussions were supported by national and international articles associated with the topic and authors such as Butler (2017, 2019), Delory-Momberger (2012, 2016), Ferraroti (2007) and Ricoeur (2012). The findings of the study contributed to highlight elements of life history in the light of queer theory, such as the queerization of life experiences from the subversion of imposed social norms of gender and sexuality, which points to evidence of new paths and study agendas for researchers who focus on investigations that contemplate life stories in Organizational Studies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This theoretical essay aims to reflect on the process of stylization of the self among LGBTQ+ bodies as a form of resistance. Inspired by two key post-modern authors, namely Nietzsche and Foucault, and based on the category of stylization of the self, we analyze the normalization of bodies and also processes of resistance. The discussions are directed at thinking about LGBTQ+ bodies from a non-identity, queer resistance perspective in terms of both will to power and care of the self, in a critical way, not with a view to radical social transformation, but to particular advances, especially at the individual and group/subculture levels, which can play a significant role in redirecting social relations. Queer pleasure thus emerges as an element that arranges the resistance category in the sphere of stylization of the self by establishing micro-transformations in the workplace as a way of tackling discipline and normalization. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The social inclusion of non-heterosexual people has occurred in several countries, being a symbol of sophistication in society. However, more recently, there has been a resurgence of political orientations that nurture an aversion to difference in several societies. Built on reflections that touch from the political dimension of sexual citizenship to the critical perspective of the organization-individual relationship, this theoretical essay discusses the rise of political conservatism and neoliberalism for the insertion of the LGBT individual in contemporary organizations. It is considered that the search for adaptation to social expectations, during the discourse of pro-diversity policies in organizations, may submit the LGBT individual to affective control and to the instrumentalization of his emancipation, which would be a risk of regression to sexual citizenship. As a recommendation, under the auspices of queer theory, this essay mobilizes a new look at individuals in organizations; a posture of questioning homogenizing pretensions and valuing difference. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Within the realm of management, productivity and marketing logic, academia deepens the contradictions that define it. In this sense, the goal of this theoretical article is to critically discuss labor relations in the academic world as it pertains to leisure, in the Greek sense (scholé), displeasure and pleasure. It is important to conceive these latter two concepts arranged with the first as a critical reflection of the role of the professor in higher education. Otherwise, little attention will be paid to the construction of emancipatory mechanisms of work derived from individual and collective conduct that help renew the relationship of the individual to the work. Ultimately, it is necessary to value this scholé space, not as instrumental purposes, but as a human condition of professional relationships in order to broaden a social reality extended through instruction and research. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]