Under the general perspective of human's emancipation at work, this article analyzes the rationality in productive organizations through a substantive boarding, according to the proposal of Guerreiro Ramos. It shows the complementarity between the Guerreiro's proposition and the theory of communicative action, created by Habermas. It also propose an analytical board, that examines empiricaly three companies in Salvador, Bahia, aiming to demonstrate how either substantive and instrumental rationalities came true. Finalr. the author defines substantive organizations and establishes a scale of intensity, that jointly with the analytical board, could be useful to examine the rationality of any productive organization.
substantive rationality; substantive organizations; organizations theory; emancipation