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Made available in DSpace on 2010-04-20T20:14:57Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 61070100614.pdf: 1078611 bytes, checksum: 191ee9d092334c77245e5af649ecc35f (MD5) Previous issue date: 2009-03-27T00:00:00Z / Este trabalho situa-se no campo da gestão internacional de recursos humanos e trata do tema da repatriação de executivos brasileiros. O objetivo desta pesquisa é realizar um levantamento das políticas e práticas de recursos humanos utilizadas por empresas brasileiras internacionalizadas e por empresas multinacionais no processo de repatriação de executivos brasileiros e na retenção desses executivos nas organizações. Como objetivos secundários, a pesquisa visa verificar se as organizações adotam as principais políticas e práticas de recursos humanos apresentadas na literatura e verificar se há diferenças entre as políticas e práticas de recursos humanos adotadas pelas empresas brasileiras internacionalizadas e pelas empresas multinacionais. A metodologia utilizada foi uma abordagem qualitativa, descritiva e analítica, em que 20 entrevistas semi-estruturadas foram realizadas, mais especificamente, 11 entrevistas com responsáveis pela área de expatriação e repatriação de empresas brasileiras internacionalizadas e 9 entrevistas com os responsáveis pela área de expatriação e repatriação de empresas multinacionais. A análise categorial temática foi utilizada como método de análise de conteúdo para interpretação das entrevistas realizadas. Os principais resultados encontrados na pesquisa foram: (i) as empresas que compõem a amostra adotam parte das políticas e práticas de recursos humanos apresentadas na literatura como fatores que auxiliam no sucesso da repatriação de executivos. A maioria das políticas e práticas adotadas está relacionada a políticas adotadas durante a expatriação e que tem impacto positivo na repatriação.e quase nenhuma das políticas e práticas sugeridas pela literatura para a fase de repatriação é adotada; (ii) o sucesso da repatriação, em termos profissionais e a adaptação do repatriado e da família ao país, e a vida social e familiar parecem depender muito mais das características do brasileiro, da conjuntura econômica do país e do esforço pessoal dos repatriados e familiares do que do suporte organizacional; (iii) parece haver poucas diferenças entre as políticas e práticas de recursos humanos adotadas pelas empresas brasileiras e pelas empresas multinacionais. / 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.

This thesis is a socio-historical study which shows the correlation between the historically developed leadership culture of democracy and the leadership practice within the evangelical churches of Switzerland. After clarifying the theological understanding in the mutual relationship of leadership and culture, first the historical development of the Swiss leadership culture is described. This development is rooted in the cultural heritage of the Celts, the Romans and the Alemannen, as well as in the history of the Swiss-Confederation and the history of Christianity. In the light of this historically founded leadership culture, the study deals further with the present leadership situation of the evangelical churches. Central fundamental values of the Swiss-leadership-culture prove to be: No power to the individual, democratic right of co-determination, federalist freedom and the importance of achievement and work. The thesis concludes with an outlook on servant leadership as an up-to-date answer to the present Swiss leadership culture. / Philosophy, Practical and Systematic Theology / MTH (PRACTICAL THEOLOGY)

Partant de l’idée que des filiales d’une entreprise sont en mesure de remettre en cause les décisions de la direction générale (maison-mère), l’approche holistique développée dans ce travail part du principe qu’une organisation peut être un « être », laissant entendre ainsi que les informations dont elle dispose seraient extérieures aux individus qui la composent. Ce qui conduit à s'interroger s’il est concevable d’ignorer l’individu dans une telle relation de domination. Cette thèse propose justement un modèle autour de résultats qui montrent la difficile exclusion de l’individu dans un contexte méta-organisationnel (dans lequel les membres seraient des organisations et non des individus). Dans cette veine, ce sont les dynamiques humaines de l’organisation qui sont au cœur de ce travail : il existe par et au travers de l’individu une dynamique issue de l’activité réelle qui permet de faire vivre l’organisation par elle-même, mais également qui permet au prescrit de cette dernière d’évoluer. Bien que les résultats obtenus montrent que l’organisation n’est pas un objet mort et sans force et qu’elle a bien la possibilité de vivre par elle-même, ce sont les individus qui — par leurs engagements conditionnels — permettent cette existence propre de l’organisation comme structure intra-consciente qui impose des droits et des obligations. Dans cette perspective, le modèle proposé vise à dessiner les structures de la réalité sociale abstraite (dénommé dans la recherche menée, l’Entité X) en montrant les forces et les contraintes organisationnelles qui pèsent sur les individus-membres, tout en relevant les capacités humaines à sortir des structures prescrites par la co-construction de liens et de structures transversales de coopérations issus de l’activité réelle. / Based on the idea that the subsidiaries of a company are able to call into question the decisions of senior management (the parent company), the holistic approach developed in this study assumes that an organization can be a “being”, implying thereby that the information in its possession is external to the individuals who compose it. This raises the question of whether it is conceivable to ignore the individual in such a relationship of domination. This thesis proposes a model based on the results which show the difficult exclusion of the individual in a meta-organizational context (in which members would be organizations and not individuals). Along these same lines, the organization’s human dynamics are at the heart of this research: there exists by and through the individual a dynamic resulting from actual activity that allows the organization to live by itself, while also allowing prescribe to evolve. Although the results show that the organization is not a dead and strengthless object, and it has the opportunity to live by itself, it is the individuals who —through their conditional commitments— allow the separate existence of an organizational structure’s intra-consciousness, which imposes rights and obligations. In this perspective, the proposed model aims to draw the structures of abstract social reality (referred as Entity X in this study) by showing the strengths and organizational constraints that weigh on individual members, while raising the human capacity to emerge from the structures prescribed by the sensemaking of links and transversal structures for cooperation that originate from the actual activity.