ABSTRACT
El apoyo organizacional y el autoconcepto profesional, han sido considerados por ser, no sólo medidas de evaluación sino, por auxiliar en el diagnóstico del desempeño organizacional. El presente estudio tiene como objetivo verificar la relación entre apoyo organizacional y autoconcepto profesional en trabajadores de empresas públicas y privadas. Participaron del estudio 650 trabajadores de Río de Janeiro-RJ, de 18 a 68 años, de empresas públicas y privadas, hombres y mujeres. Estos respondieron un cuestionario sociodemográfico, la Escala de Percepción de Apoyo Organizacional y la Escala de Autoconcepto Profesional. Se observó por medio de la técnica de modelado de ecuaciones estructurales la influencia positiva del apoyo organizacional percibido sobre el autoconcepto profesional. Esto es, cuanto mayor el apoyo organizacional percibido mayor el autoconcepto profesional. Se pudo concluir que el apoyo organizacional es una variable fundamental que debe ser considerada por los gestores organizacionales.
The new economic and social perspectives have enabled organizations to develop more creative and innovative human resource practices. In this context, one of the dimensions that has been receiving attention in the area of organizational psychology is human capital. Organizational support and professional self-concept have been considered because they are not only evaluation measures but also because they help in the diagnosis of organizational performance. The present study aims to verify the relationship between organizational support and professional self-concept in employees of public and private companies. Participated in the survey 650 workers from Rio de Janeiro-RJ, aged 18-68, from public and private companies, men and women. These answered a sociodemographic questionnaire, the Perceived Organizational Support Scale and the Professional Self-Concept Scale. It was observed through the Structural Equation Modeling the positive influence of the support on the professional self-concept. That is, the greater the perceived organizational support the greater the self-concept of the professional. It can be concluded that organizational support is a fundamental variable that should be considered by organizational managers.