Políticas e práticas de recursos humanos do processo de repatriação de executivos brasileiros

Resumo

This is a study in the field of the International Management of Human Resources Management and its subject is the repatriation of Brazilian executives. The objective of this research is to investigate the Human Resources policies and practices used by both Brazilian internationalized and multinational companies in the processes of repatriation of Brazilian executives as well as in the retaining of such professionals in their organizations. As secondary objectives, this research aims to verify if organizations adopt the best human resources policies and practices referred to in the mainstream literature as factors that corroborate to the success of the repatriation and to identify whether there are differences in the human resources policies and practices adopted by the Brazilian internationalized and the multinational companies. The Adopted methodology was based in a qualitative approach, in which 20 semi-structured interviews were conducted with the person in charge of the expatriation and repatriation processes, 11 in Brazilian internationalized and 9 in multinational companies. The analysis by thematic categories was used as the content analysis method for the interpretation of the above mentioned interviews’ results. The main results identified were the following: (I) the studied companies adopt only partially the best human resources policies and practices recommended by the literature as factors that corroborate in the success of executives repatriation. The majority of the adopted policies and practices are related to policies adopted during the expatriation period that have a positive impact in the repatriation. Almost none of the policies and practices suggested by the mainstream literature for the repatriation phase itself is adopted; (II) the success of the repatriation, in both professional terms and regarding the adaptation of the repatriated and his family to the country and its social and family life, seems to depend much more of the characteristics of the expatriated Brazilian himself, of the economic context of the country and of the personal efforts of the repatriated and his family than of his company’s support; and, (III) few differences between the human resources policies and practices adopted by the Brazilian and the multinational companies were found.

Ficha do documento

Tipo

Dissertação

Ano

2009

Instituição

Fundação Getulio Vargas

Fonte

Repositório da FGV

Idioma

Português

Acesso

Acesso aberto

Identificador

oai:repositorio.fgv.br:10438/4841

Palavras-chave

International management of human resourcesHuman resources repatriates policies and practicesExpatriatesRepatriatesGestão internacional de recursos humanosPolíticas e práticas de recursos humanos para repatriadosExecutivos expatriadosExecutivos repatriadosAdministração de empresasExecutivos - BrasilExecutivos - Estudos interculturaisRecursos humanos - Estudos interculturaisTrabalhadores estrangeirosRepatriação