THE ALTERNATIVE VARIABLE REMUNERATION OF BIO-POWER IN LIQUID MODERNITY

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the propositions of variable remuneration on the light of the bio-power perspective, since Foucault (1996). The remuneration has always been a way to control capital over work. This way of control had its evolution, as the remuneration did too, changing from uniform and institutional control to a bio-political one, microphysical, which starts since the internalization of rules of the new work in the subject himself, who is not under physical examination anymore, but who is the subject of his own control, building a new way of subjectivity. The analysis is made according to a conceptual character, the manager, as per Deleuze and Guattari (1992) concept, using him a start point for the variable remuneration thinking case (VR). The methodology used can be identified in a post-modern or contemporaneous perspective, trying to analyze the problem and find another way to be able to go beyond the evidences and the common sense. The mechanisms and concepts associated to VR, like excellence, competence and others, are identified as bio-power mechanisms which are presented to the individuals interfering on their performance and changing their subjectivity, expressed in the way of acting and thinking.