Thesis (MTech (Human Resource Management))--Cape Peninsula University of Technology, 2018. / As the worldwide demand for quality higher education seems to be increasing, growing concern for the foreseeable future over the supply and talent retention of researchers and academics has become a major discussion amongst higher education institutions in South Africa Higher Education South Africa (HESA, 2014). Today almost half of South Africa’s population is under 25 years old and 30 percent are under 15 years old (World Bank, 2015:38). While the country is experiencing this demographic window of opportunity, the majority of academics are entering the retirement phase of their careers (HESA, 2014). Under such circumstances, these academic staff will need to be replaced with talented employees thus alerting scholars to investigate the issue. To reach target levels of education and skills development which will promote growth and development of the economy, it will be essential for the country to attract talented academic staff (Zuma, 2014). It is essential for South Africa to attract academic staff in order to enable government to reach target levels of education and skills development which will promote growth and development of the economy (Zuma, 2014). Retaining academic staff will further ensure that tertiary institutions accomplish their visions and missions and thereby becoming centres of excellence (Ng’ethe, Iravo and Namusonge, 2012). In a study by Currie (2006:119) it was found that the financial costs associated in losing experienced academic staff makes it necessary to retain them. Currently, there appears to be limited research studies on talent attraction and retention factors in higher learning institutions. Previous scholars that have attempted to research into talent management components in higher education (Theron, Barkhuizen and du Plesis, 2014) only focused on factors in academic turnover and retention factors while some scholars only researched on intention to quit factors amongst Generation Y academics in higher education (Robyn and du Preez, 2013). The talent management domain is not receiving enough attention and gaps in research seem to exist in the context of talent management system in higher learning institutions. The research focused on the emerging trends relating in the discipline of talent management specifically on talent attraction and retention which have become predominant topics in the higher education. The study provides comprehensive overview of challenges and obstacles that are found in the aspect of talent management within the higher education sector. It is against this background that the primary aim of the researcher was to introduce a framework model to attract and retain talented employees as the means to harness the issue of talent management in the higher education sector.

O desafio das empresas tem sido manter sua competitividade em um mercado de rápidas mudanças e com um consumidor/cliente cada vez mais exigente. Ter competência e rapidez nas respostas representa hoje um grande desafio que exige recursos diferenciados. São as pessoas que podem garantir o desenho e a implementação da estratégia por meio de uma gestão competente, gerando produtos e serviços com qualidade para atender a esse novo consumidor. Por esta razão, as empresas necessitam de profissionais qualificados, tanto para as posições mais estratégicas, na tomada de decisão, como na operação. Entretanto, a área de gestão de pessoas, responsável pelo recrutamento e seleção, vem demonstrando preocupação com a capacidade do mercado brasileiro e, em especial São Paulo para ofertar profissionais qualificados e atender à demanda das empresas. Esta questão tem emergido e, com isto, surgiu o termo \"apagão de mão de obra\". Entretanto, é preciso entender o quanto este apagão é real e o quanto este fato pode tornar o mercado de profissionas tão competitivo quanto o mercado de consumo, a ponto de as empresas disputarem profissionais como disputam consumidores/clientes. Este contexto gerou duas reflexões: a primeira é o quanto a área de gestão de pessoas está preparada e tem desenvolvido uma estratégia efetiva para a atração de talentos; e, na sequência, o quanto a área de marketing, com a sua experiência em lidar com mercados competitivos, pode contribuir com a área de gestão de pessoas, compartilhando as ferramentas utilizadas para atrair os consumidores. Assim, optou-se, por um estudo exploratório com metodologia qualitativa para entender a percepção dos profissionais de gestão de pessoas sobre o \"apagão de mão de obra\" e identificar o quanto as ferramentas de marketing podem contribuir para a atração de talentos. Os resultados revelaram que é percebida uma escassez de profissionais qualificados no mercado, e que o chamado \"apagão de mão obra\" ocorre em áreas específicas, dependendo do segmento da empresa, e não de forma generalizada. O resultado da pesquisa identificou similaridades entre os mercados de profissionais e de consumo, assim como a possibilidade de aplicação das ferramentas: employer branding, posicionamento, segmentação e marketing de relacionamento na atração de talentos. Foi identificado, também, que este tema ainda é tratado de forma operacional e reativa, faltando à área de gestão de pessoas uma atuação mais estratégica e orientada para o mercado de profissionais. / The corporate challenge has been to maintain its competitiveness in a rapidly changing market and with an increasingly demanding consumer/client. Being competent and timely response represents today a major challenge that requires special feature. Only people can ensure the design and strategy implementation through a competent management, providing quality products and services to meet this new consumer/client. For this reason, companies need qualified professionals, both for strategic positions in decision-making, as in operation. However, the area of people management, which is responsible for recruitment and selection, has been showing concern about the ability of the supply of qualified professionals, in Brazil and in particular in the State of São Paulo, to meet business demand. This issue has emerged and, with this, the term \"labor blackout\". However, one must understand how much this blackout is real and how this fact can make the professional market as competitive as the consumer market, to the point where companies compete as professionals disputing consumers/clients. This gives rise to two thoughts: the first is how much the area of people management is prepared and has developed an effective strategy for attracting talents; and, as a result, how much the marketing area, with its experience in dealing with competitive markets, can contribute to the area of people management, sharing the tools used to attract consumers. So, it was decided, preliminarily, for an exploratory study with qualitative methodology to understand the perception of professionals people management on the labor blackout and identify how much the marketing tools can contribute to attract talents. The results revealed that a shortage of qualified professionals in the market is perceived, and that the so-called \"labor blackout\" occurs in specific areas, depending on the segment of the company, and not generally. The survey results identified similarities between the professional and consumer markets, as well as the possibility of tools application: employer branding, positioning, segmentation and relationship marketing in attracting talent. It was also identified that this topic is still treated as operational and reactive, being the area of people management short of a more strategic performance and market-oriented.

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O recrutamento ganhou destaque neste cenário competitivo entre as organizações, passando a ser progressivamente conduzido na internet. Esta Dissertação apresenta os resultados de uma pesquisa qualitativa sobre o recrutamento online direcionado aos estudantes universitários. Trata-se de indivíduos que, geralmente, são integrantes da geração Y, e mais propensos a procurarem vagas no ambiente virtual. Com efeito, o objetivo central da pesquisa foi compreender como os estudantes se relacionam com as mídias e redes sociais online quando buscam vagas de estágios. Os objetivos específicos foram: (a) investigar como a forma e o conteúdo dos anúncios publicados nas mídias e redes sociais online os afetam para decidirem ou não se inscreverem nos processos seletivos para vagas de estágio; (b) compreender as razões que os levam a procurar vagas nesses as mídias e redes sociais; (c) examinar como eles se relacionam com tais meios. Realizou-se uma pesquisa qualitativa, por meio do estudo de casos múltiplos. A coleta de dados foi realizada a partir de entrevistas semi-estruturadas, individuais, via Skype e observações diretas em oito indivíduos. Os resultados evidenciaram a existência de cinco categorias principais: (1) Navegação: esclarece como os entrevistados fazem suas buscas por vagas na rede, assim como os motivos que os levaram a interrompê-las; (2) Forma e conteúdo dos anúncios: mostraram em que medida esses fatores influenciaram sua decisão de se inscreverem ou não em uma vaga; (3) CV online na (contra)mão da navegabilidade: revela que o preenchimento do CV online foi percebido como um obstáculo à inscrição nas vagas; (4) Afastamentos (diversions): sinalizaram o deslocamento do foco dos sujeitos nas entrevistas, expressos nas distrações que os desviaram da busca de vagas para fazerem outras coisas; (5) Zona de conforto: aponta a preferência pelo recebimento de anúncios via e-mail e a centralização de suas atividades – sociais, pessoais, profissionais e de entretenimento – no Facebook, evidenciando a necessidade de os entrevistados permanecerem em um espaço familiar. Concluiu-se que o magnetismo do meio – das mídias e, principalmente, do Facebook – é maior do que o conteúdo divulgado, tornando secundária a busca por vagas de estágios. / Information and communications technologies have become a part of the organizational processes in recent decades to follow the of the market dynamism, to reduce costs, and increase profits. The recruitment has gained importance in this competitive scenario among organizations, being progressively carried out on the internet. Therefore, this research focused on investigating the online recruiting of university students, generally a part of the Generation Y, more prone to seek jobs online and to become targeted for human resources professionals‟ actions on media and social networks. The main objective was to understand how students deal with media and online social networks when they search for internships positions. The specific objectives were: (a) to investigate how the format and content of the advertisements published on the media and online social networks affect student‟s decision to enroll or not in selection processes for internship positions; (b) to understand the reasons why they seek jobs on these medias; (c) to examine how individuals deal with these medias. A qualitative research was conducted applying the multiple case study method, through semistructured interviews and direct observations in eight individuals. Data collection was carried out through individual interviews via Skype. Results revealed five main categories: (1) Navigation: refers to how respondents search for openings on the web, as well as presents the reasons that led them to stop their quest; (2) The form and content of the ads: shows the extent to which these factors influenced their decision to enroll or not in an internship position; (3) Online CV playing against the navigability: the difficulty to fill them out was perceived as a barrier to apply in advertised internship positions; (4) Diversions: shed light as to how the focus of each subject shifted during their interviews, expressed in the distractions that led them to stray from their search for positions to do other things online; (5) Comfort zone: revealed a major preference for receiving job openings advertisements via e-mail, as well as to center all activities – social, personal, professional and entertainment – on Facebook, suggesting the need of the interviewees to remain in a familiar setting. In conclusion, the means magnetism, mainly the Facebook, is greater than its content, making secondary students‟ search for internship openings.

In 2017 the Swedish government decided that the defense should be based on both volunteerism and duty. The military service had then been dormant since 2010 and built entirely on volunteerism. From this political decision, the duty is now gender neutral, which means that the same opportunities and obligations apply to both men and women. The Swedish Armed Forces have an active desire for more women to carry out the military service - an organisation that historically has been strongly associated with masculine norms.  ”From campaign to attention” is a qualitative interview study on the military conscripts’ experience of government communication, which aims to contribute to increased gender equality in the defense. The study aims to illustrate how communication that challenges stereotypes to change norms is received by men and women who carry out their basic education in the Armed Forces.  In order to find out the military conscripts’ view of the chosen authorities’ communication, we conducted ten qualitative interviews with military conscripts who are in the middle of their basic education. All respondents belonged to the armory regiment P4 in Skövde, Sweden. The material selected for the study consists of a campaign from the Recruitment Authority (2017) and two campaigns from the Swedish Armed Forces (2018). The theories from which the study is based on are Stuart Hall’s encoding / decoding theory, theories on framing and theories on advertising, stereotypes and mirror theories. These theories help the study to shed light on the different parts of the process when a message is packaged and coded and how they are finally interpreted by their recipients.  The study shows that the military conscripts believe that the authorities have chosen appropriate efforts to increase gender equality in the Swedish Armed Forces in the long term. They believe that the authorities communicate a broader picture of who can be a soldier, they consider contributing to reaching new target groups, including both women and men who do not identify with the historical norm of a soldier.  The respondents, however, highlight a gap between how the authorities communicate the distribution between men and women versus reality. Although the picture does not correspond to reality, they understand the purpose for which the authorities have chosen to show women to the extent they do. The study shows that government communication with such realistic images of military service as possible is the one that the target group interpret in the most efficient way and which is best appreciated. Our study also shows that the respondents do not automatically believe that the authorities' communication loosens the stereotypical image of a soldier simply because they show women instead of men. Instead, there are other factors (such as attributes or charisma) that contribute to the presentation being perceived as stereotyped.

As the cost for health care delivery increases, so does the demand for access to care. However, individuals in a rural community often do not have access to the care they need. Shortages of rural health care professionals are an ever-increasing problem. The Affordable Care Act of 2010 sought to increase health care access by focusing on team-based care delivery. Thus, the need to educate health care students in the fundamentals of team-based practice has led to an increased emphasis on Interprofessional Education (IPE). While past research focused on urban IPE, a literature gap exists for the effects of a rural team-based educational experience on practice location decisions. This study examined how rural IPE influenced health profession students' perspectives of what it means to be a member of a rural health care team and explored what factors go into making decisions of where to live and provide care. Motivational Theory provided the framework for a mixed methods approach with data from student reflective journaling and a post-experience Q sort. Analysis yielded important understandings about the impact of rural IPE. Accordingly, having a rural IPE experience provided positive motivation for returning after graduation. Further, the time spent in rural IPE generated understandings of what it means to live and provide care to a rural community. One important new discovery gained is the clinical setting is not where most IPE took place. As a result, social interactions with fellow students and community members achieved the goals of rural IPE. Despite these influential findings, noted barriers to genuine rural IPE persisted. In the end, students, educators, and rural health care professionals need to be aware of the multiple factors that guide decisions of where to live and provide care.

[Truncated abstract] It is essential to attract, recruit and retain quality teachers in rural and remote schools for provision of quality education to rural and remote students. A robust body of research confirms that teacher quality contributes to quality of education (Darling-Hammond, 2000; Hay McBer, 2000; Kaplan & Owings, 2002; OECD, 2002; Ramsay, 2000). Staffing histories of rural and remote schools identify persistent difficulties in recruiting and retaining teachers, but previous research has failed to address the experiences and perspectives of rural and remote teachers from the earliest phases of appointment, tracking their experiences over time. In times and places of persistent teacher shortages, teacher quality of worklife issues are paramount. Factors impacting on teacher quality of worklife may impact on teacher retention, staffing levels and ultimately the quality of education for children. For these reasons, this study aimed to develop substantive theory about the experiences of teachers commencing appointments in rural and remote schools by investigating the perspectives of novice, interstate and overseas-qualified teachers. The study sought to develop understandings of rural and remote teachers quality of worklife. In order to achieve this aime, the experiences of 29 teachers were examined, in four categories of teachers likely to be appointed to rural and remote locations: young novices; mature-aged novices; interstate; and overseas-qualified teachers in a qualitative collective case study. ... Awareness of the variety of factors in multiple environments, and the complex interplay between them, helps to account for the diversity of perspectives and quality of worklife outcomes for rural and remote teachers. Two theories were generated from ten propositions. The first theory, Quality of Worklife for Rural and Remote Teachers: Person-Environment Fit to Multiple Environments, identified protective and risk factors associated with workrole, workplace, organisation, geographic and socio-cultural community environments. The theory recognises spillover between work and non-work life experiences, impacting on quality of teacher worklife; however, factors directly associated with worklife impacted most significantly on quality of worklife. The second theory, Processes of Adaptation to Multiple Rural and Remote Environments, identified processes (teacher expectations, evaluations of environments, responses to environments) and coping strategies (direct-action, palliative and avoidant) as leading to one of four outcomes: integration; resilient integration; disequilibrium; and withdrawal. The case study findings offer original understandings of experiences of teachers newly appointed to rural and remote schools, through the development of theory about multiple environments teachers encounter and processes of adaptation associated with their relocation to rural and remote areas. The findings have implications for theory, policy and practice, and contribute new dimensions to the general quality of worklife literature.

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<p>Denna uppsats undersöker om det kan finnas behov att ändra något i grundutbildningen för att de värnpliktiga i svenska flottan skall vara bättre förberedda för att rekryteras till de marina insatsstyrkorna. Det undersöks också huruvida det finns behov att förändra sättet att rekrytera personal till de marina insatsstyrkorna. För att belysa hur väl systemet fungerar som det ser ut idag har en fallstudie på den svenska marina missionen ML i Libanon år 2006-2007 gjorts. Där presenteras erfarenheter från missionen som sedan analyseras med hjälp av delar av det undervisningsmaterial som används under grundutbildningen, GU.</p><p>Av undersökningen har det framkommit att förändringar kan göras i grundutbildningen för att förbereda de värnpliktiga bättre. Ett exempel på förslag som kommit fram är att i större utsträckning implementera internationella reglementen och tillvägagångssätt under grundutbildningen. Förslag på förändringar som kan göras i sättet att rekrytera har också framkommit. Ett exempel på ett sådant förslag är att vid rekrytering testa individens fysiologiska lämplighet likt det sätt som flygvapnet testar sina blivande flygförare.</p> / <p>Basic training to be recruited to the naval rapid reaction forces.</p><p>This paper examines if there might be a need of change in the basic training so that the conscripts in the Swedish navy will be better prepared to be recruited to the naval rapid reaction forces. It also examines if the way to recruit personnel to the naval rapid reaction forces needs to be changed. To show how well the system, as it is today, works, a case study have been made on the Swedish naval mission, ML, in Lebanon during 2006-2007. It presents experiences from the mission that later has been analyzed with the help of parts of the educational material that is used in the basic training.</p><p>By this research it has emerged that changes could be made in the basic training to better prepare the conscripts. One example of the suggestions that has evolved is that to a greater extent involve international regulations and procedures in the basic training. Suggestions to change the way of recruiting personnel has also evolved and one example of such a suggestion is that the recruiting process could include a test where the person’s physiological suitability is being tested. A test similar to the one the Air force let’s you do before becoming a pilot.</p>

University of Macau / Faculty of Business Administration / Department of Management and Marketing

University of Macau / Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities / Department of Government and Public Administration