CULTURE OF PROFESSIONS IN THE ASTILLEROS DEL ORIENTE COMPANY. THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL CONSIDERATIONS

Abstract

The complexities of the Cuban context need solutions that articulate realities, strategies, and political and scientific perspectives; however, despite the diversity of disciplines, approaches, studies, and authors that approach the organizational culture and the theory of professions, the use of the concept: culture of professions, is barely noticeable in national and foreign research on organizational cohorts, at a time when this category needs to acquire more significant value. This work aimed to characterize the culture of professions in the Astilleros del Oriente (ASTOR) Company to identify theoretical-methodological guidelines for its use in the workplace. This investigation was carried out as a case study in the dependences of ASTOR, in Santiago de Cuba, with a population of 296 people of different professions; it was necessary to harmonize methods and technical qualitative and quantitative as interviews, surveys, observations, and analysis of documents, being applied a simple random sampling in the case of the survey and intentional samplings for the other instruments. The main result was the theoretical-methodological construction of the concept culture of professions and the identification of rules for its use in the labor sphere employing the characterization of the organization study object.