QUALIDADE DE VIDA NO TRABALHO DOCENTE: Estudo no Sul de Minas e no Vale do Paraíba Paulista

Abstract

State, municipal, and private schools make up a significant portion for local, regional and national development. Teachers who work in schools contribute to the formation of future citizens and their quality of work life (QWL) interferes with the quality of teaching. Nevertheless, the factors that interfere in the QWL of these teachers also interfere in their personal lives. Therefore, this study with a quantitative approach aims to evaluate a QWL of Basic Education teachers from state, municipal and private schools in the southern region of Minas Gerais and in the Vale do Paraíba Paulista. This is a convenience sample consisting of 103 professors. For data collection, the TQWL-42 instrument was used, transcribed to Google Forms, with the questionnaires being distributed remotely in the second half of 2020. The collection took place during a pandemic period due to the SARS-Cov-2 virus (popularly known as coronavirus), which causes Covid-19, demanding greater care and emergency measures, bringing with it the intensification, flexibility and precariousness of teaching work in this period. Student's t test was used to observe and confirm the non-relevant statistical difference between the data of the regions. With this, the analysis of the data generated by the results of the questionnaires was carried out using Microsoft Excel software After these analyses, it was possible to observe the satisfaction of the professors about their QWL in all spheres, except for the Economic/Political sphere and in most aspects of the proposed questionnaire In this study, the aspects that were best evaluated were Task Significance, Interpersonal Relations and Work Capacity. On the other hand, those with the worst evaluations. were Opportunity for growth, Extra benefits and Health and social assistance services. It is concluded that, even with most of the satisfactory evaluations, the scores obtained are, in short, low and demand urgent concern from everyone directly or indirectly involved in education in order to guarantee a good quality of Brazilian education