Precarious work as predictor of moral harassment in the Brazilian Unified Social Assistance System (USAS)

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Názov: Precarious work as predictor of moral harassment in the Brazilian Unified Social Assistance System (USAS)
Autori: Rozana Maria da Fonseca, Sandra Adriana Neves Nunes, Carlos Eduardo Carrusca Vieira
Zdroj: Cuadernos de Trabajo Social, Vol 38, Iss 2 (2025)
Informácie o vydavateľovi: Universidad Complutense de Madrid (UCM), 2025.
Rok vydania: 2025
Predmety: work precariousness, Social sciences (General), H1-99, moral harassment, unified social assistance system, multiple regression analysis, workers, Social history and conditions. Social problems. Social reform, HN1-995
Popis: In the logic of neoliberal managerialism, the intensification of work, the cult of performance, and the pursuit of productivity and profit at the expense of labor rights and workers’ health exacerbate abusive management practices such as moral harassment. This study investigated whether different dimensions of precarious work would predict moral harassment in a sample of 747 SUAS workers, with a mean age of 38.34 years (SD = 8.22) and predominantly female (88.6%). A sociodemographic questionnaire was used, along with the Moral Harassment Workplace Scale (MHWS) and the Perception Scale of Work Conditions Quality and Employment Bond (PSWCQEB). “Quality of Employment Bond,” “Quality of Interprofessional Relations and Workplace Equality” and “Precarious Work” were significant predictors of this type of harassment, explaining 35% of variance in moral harassment due to labor conditions. “Quality of Interprofessional Relations and Workplace Equality” and “Healthy and Safe Work Environment” explained 13% of variance in moral harassment due to prejudice. “Quality of Interprofessional Relations and Workplace Equality” was negatively associated with moral harassment in situations involving humiliation, explaining 32.3% of variance. The study concludes that moral harassment and precarious work are interconnected phenomena that impact SUAS workers and reflect the logics of capitalist social relations of production and neoliberalism, even in the context of public management. Keywords: Moral harassment; precarious work, Unified Social Assistance System; multiple regression analysis; workers.
Druh dokumentu: Article
ISSN: 1988-8295
0214-0314
DOI: 10.5209/cuts.97670
Prístupová URL adresa: https://doaj.org/article/716cfd0680df4a459d9e0d8a6c4e0a80
Prístupové číslo: edsair.doi.dedup.....9b146cc78c1786751b8cb15158c75f77
Databáza: OpenAIRE
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Abstrakt:In the logic of neoliberal managerialism, the intensification of work, the cult of performance, and the pursuit of productivity and profit at the expense of labor rights and workers’ health exacerbate abusive management practices such as moral harassment. This study investigated whether different dimensions of precarious work would predict moral harassment in a sample of 747 SUAS workers, with a mean age of 38.34 years (SD = 8.22) and predominantly female (88.6%). A sociodemographic questionnaire was used, along with the Moral Harassment Workplace Scale (MHWS) and the Perception Scale of Work Conditions Quality and Employment Bond (PSWCQEB). “Quality of Employment Bond,” “Quality of Interprofessional Relations and Workplace Equality” and “Precarious Work” were significant predictors of this type of harassment, explaining 35% of variance in moral harassment due to labor conditions. “Quality of Interprofessional Relations and Workplace Equality” and “Healthy and Safe Work Environment” explained 13% of variance in moral harassment due to prejudice. “Quality of Interprofessional Relations and Workplace Equality” was negatively associated with moral harassment in situations involving humiliation, explaining 32.3% of variance. The study concludes that moral harassment and precarious work are interconnected phenomena that impact SUAS workers and reflect the logics of capitalist social relations of production and neoliberalism, even in the context of public management. Keywords: Moral harassment; precarious work, Unified Social Assistance System; multiple regression analysis; workers.
ISSN:19888295
02140314
DOI:10.5209/cuts.97670