Organizational and Work Psychology and its contribution to a cooperative in the highlands of Paraíba: An intersection between management and sustainability

This work, which is the result of the curricular unit: Management processe concerns the basic internship, which took place in a solid waste cooperative. This report presents the theoretical background, which is essential to guide the practice, the methodology, the results of the intervention carried out and the final considerations. Based on on-site visits, permeated by observation and interviews with the leader of the square and the cooperative members, an institutional diagnosis was made and, based on this, a demand survey was carried out. Interpersonal relationships with a view to the well-being of workers and the growth of the organization, and the underlying interference of emotions, stood out as the main demand for intervention at the time. This experience provided contact with the field of Organizational and Work Psychology, reflecting the possibilities for professional work in this area.