This article deals with organizational discourses, trying to understand what are them, how they can be characterized and analyzed associated to management practices in business context in the ninety's decade. Theoretically, organizational discourses were explored concerning their conception, roots and uses in organization, what has contributed to highlight their role as one of main components of contemporary management. We adopted a qualitative methodological strategy to achieve our objectives, in what we analyze internal documents associated to interviews with managers and workers of a textile industry of Minas Gerais State. Main results show a complex dynamic, in what discourse is absorbed by workers of a partial way, not according organizational goals, what, however, strengthens enterprise in a weakness' workers context. Asymmetries found in a conservative and at the same time innovative organization, as the ambient surround it, reveals a promissory space to analyze local forms of management development.
management practices; management discourse; organizational control