ResumoO presente trabalho considera a relação entre tecnologia de produção e cultura organizacional em uma empresa estatal de transporte em massa. Este estudo sugere que as demandas de um sistema de produção altamente mecanizado, de alta intensidade de capital e de alta precisão não determinam diretamente a cultura organizacional como alegariam alguns estudos clássicos. Antes, parecem gerar tensões subculturais entre as unidades responsáveis pela operação cotidiana do sistema e as unidades que fazem intermediação entre a organização e o seu ambiente político e econômico. Essas tensões, por sua vez, podem gerar maior variância em percepções de cultura organizacional do que se encontra em organizações que não precisam conciliar simultaneamente as demandas de uma tecnologia de precisão e as tensões inerentes às organizações públicas. Em termos teóricos, este trabalho abre novo espaço conceitual para abordar a tecnologia como variável independente em um campo que tradicionalmente tem visto a cultura organizacional como variável dependente.Palavras-chave: Tecnologia de produção. Cultura organizacional. Transporte público.producTion Technology and organizaTional culTure in a mass TransiT company Abstract T he current research considers the association between production technology and organizational culture in a large stated owned mass transit system. This study suggests that the demands of a highly mechanized, highly capital intensive, and high precision production system does not dominate the organizational culture as might be expected. Rather, it appears to generate subcultural tensions between units that are responsible for the day to day operation of the system and those which mediate between the organization and its political and economic environment. These tensions in turn generate greater variance in perceptions of the organization's culture than would be found in organizations that do not have to simultaneously address the demands of a high precision production technology and tensions inherent in public organizations. Our work breaks new theoretical ground by considering technology as an independent variable in a field which has traditionally seen organizational culture as the independent variable and technological activity as dependent.
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