Aprendizagem no Trabalho: pesquisa nas organizações públicas e privadas brasileiras

Abstract

The objective is to compare the empirical research on learning at work carried out in Brazilian public and private organizations, published in the last 20 years in 18 scientific journals of business and psychology. Out of 95 selected articles, 34 exclusively report research in the public sector and 39 in the private sector. There are other 22 articles reporting research in either sectors or in mixed capital companies. In the public sector, 32% of the articles focused on informal learning, while they were 61% in the private sector. Other differences emerged, regarding themes and methods of investigation. There are gaps in the national scientific literature concerning the methodological development of informal learning research, and concerning studies that include meso and macro levels of learning. Such advances would contribute to the construction of models of organizations and work teams that favor formal and informal processes of acquisition, retention and transfer.