IMPACTOS DAS MUDANÇAS TECNOLÓGICAS E ORGANIZACIONAIS NA FORÇA DE TRABALHO DO SETOR AGROINDUSTRIAL DE MINAS GERAIS

This article analyzes the impacts of the changes motivated by the opening process of theBrazilian economy in the composition of manpower and in the demand of workers' training with technicalformation at the high school level in three agroindustrial companies of Minas Gerais State. It was used themethod of historic-organizational case study to collect data and conduct a comparative analysis accomplishingthe period from 1990 to 1998. It was observed that the researched companies passed for processes oftechnological and administrative restructuring, investing in installations, equipment, release of new products,as well as sticking to new methods and administrative practices, of production and marketing. As a result ofthat restructuring, they also started to invest in training and they tend to demand labor with minimal schoolingat high school level or with technical course of the same level. However, the interviewees evaluate that theoffered technical courses were not up-date and did not assist appropriately to marketing demands. Theysuggest that were included in the curricula disciplines which approach human relationships and that theschools come to have larger exchange with the companies through technical visits and apprenticeships, whichwould allow better relationship between theory and practice.