Position Plans, Careers and Salaries: perspective of health professionals from the Central-West of Brazil

ABSTRACT The improvement of working management practices is a requirement for health services in all regions of the Country. The present study analyzes the implementation of the Position Plans, Careers and Salaries (PCCS) in health institutions, from the perspective of health professionals in the Central-West region of Brazil. This is a documentary study, with a qualitative approach. The textual content of the documents was submitted to the lexicographical analysis and Descending Hierarchical Classification (DHC), with the help of the Iramuteq software. The documents were analyzed in the light of the Bardin Content Analysis. The research universe consisted of 211 documents. As for the profile of the professionals whose testimonies are contained on the research documents, it was observed the predominance of female servers, in the age group of 36 to 50 years, with a higher education level and from the state sphere. Despite the challenges, such as unfavorable working conditions and non-compliance of labor rights by some managers, the PCCS shows itself as a motivational instrument to the workers, contributing to the valorization, fixation and career prospects, especially at the federal level.