Programa qualidade de vida: o caso do IFTO – Palmas

Abstract

This study aimed to study the public policy of the Quality of Life Program (QLP) promoted by IFTO - Campus Palmas. This policy was implemented to improve the quality of life of organ servers through three axes: (1) Health; (2) Leisure and Social; (3) Environment. The study deals with two aspects that has been changing over the past decades: Public policies and Quality of Life at Work (QLW). Both factors affect the lives of every society, since the active population works and even people without work activity suffers the consequences of the policies implemented by governments. The work provides meaning to people's lives and has close relationship with your lifestyle outside the workplace. People who work long working hours generally have little or no leisure time. The concern for quality has led many companies to deploy Quality of Life Programs (QLP). The implementation of these programs is recent and is aimed at promoting health and worker well-being. The QLPs in organizations should promote interventions to improve occupational health in all aspects. Within the IFTO - Palmas the QLP was established in October 2013, but after two years of the program it showed incipient with sporadic actions. This motivated this research. It sought to identify the problems faced by the program in order to collaborate with the institution. Thirty servants were interviewed, including twelve managers, through semistructured interviews. By comparing the views of these two groups using content analysis, perceptions were identified distinguishing the two groups with respect to QLP and QLW itself. Although the study has as main objective the QLP program, to speak of QLW is critical because this program is the main QLW improvement tool to the servants. The initiative faces several problems: Lack of management involvement; inoperative local commission; lack of own resources; among others. At the end of this work actions were proposed for the program restructuring.