It is important for a selling company to have a motivated sales force. The motivation and what employees is motivated by have occupied the interest of human resource researchers for decades. There has been a large amount of research within motivational psychology, which has produced several theories regarding human needs and motivation factors. This study focused on sales professionals within business-to-business (B2B) with the purpose to explore and describe sales professionals’ perceptions regarding financial incentives and their motivation. The study also answers the questions of how sales professionals perceive that financial incentive affects their motivation and how the financial incentives relate to sales professional motivation. This study utilizes a qualitative approach, where the empirical data was gathered by six semi-structured interviews. By analyzing the findings, the researchers have concluded that financial incentive can both work as a motivator and a demotivator. Financial incentives can increase stress and pressure for the sales professional especially for individuals new to the profession. The study has found that this is something that the individual have to cope with since the organization is not providing support for this. If the sales professionals can cope with the stress, it will work as a motivator. Lastly, the study presents practical and managerial implications for sales organizations. They need to be aware of the business environment to ensure that financial incentive achieves the desired effect.

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Submitted by Filipe dos Santos (fsantos@pucsp.br) on 2018-12-17T11:53:32Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosana de Jesus Moreira.pdf: 1020243 bytes, checksum: 6977013203f3827914b3ff92ac44844b (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2018-12-17T11:53:32Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Rosana de Jesus Moreira.pdf: 1020243 bytes, checksum: 6977013203f3827914b3ff92ac44844b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2018-03-15 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior - CAPES / Electronic commerce is growing around the world and does not behave differently in Brazil. In this sense, Frost & Sullivan (2014) estimates that e-commerce in the B2B market is expected to move around US $ 6.7 trillion worldwide by 2020, more than double that predicted for B2C e-commerce, which is $ 3.2 trillion. The office supplies industry, which integrates the B2B market and the distribution industry, promoting indirect purchasing and procurement solutions for small, medium and large companies, faces the challenge of using e-commerce and the impacts that this technology can generate in the management model of sales professionals. In view of the foregoing, the general objective of this work is to understand the impacts of the use of e-commerce on the work of sales professionals in the B2B market in the office supplies industry. In addition, it was possible to identify the differences and similarities, between the vision of the commercial managers and the professionals of sales professionals, as well as the new demands and challenges for the management of the workforce in the sector. In relation to the methodology used, two types of research were chosen: the first exploratory in books and academic articles, and the second by qualitative exploratory research in which eight sales professionals and three commercial managers were interviewed, among the three largest companies of the office supplies industry of the State of São Paulo. The results of the survey are: the use of e-commerce has an impact on the work of sales professionals as it changes careers, vendors' remuneration and performance patterns, turning these professionals into product-oriented and support-oriented consultants to the client portfolio. This creates a conflict between e-commerce and the traditional sales channel to be administered, as there is a perception of competition between the technology tool and the salespeople's work; context in which the visions of the sales professionals and the managers do not agree on the impacts. Finally, the contributions of this study, as far as its extension goes, go beyond the academic environment and serve to alert B2B professionals in the office supply industry about the changes in work and the challenges of their careers / O comércio eletrônico vem crescendo ao redor do mundo e não se comporta de maneira diferente no Brasil. Nesse sentido, pesquisa da Frost & Sullivan (2014) estima que o comércio eletrônico no mercado B2B deve movimentar em torno de US$ 6,7 trilhões ao redor do mundo até 2020, mais que o dobro do previsto para o comércio eletrônico B2C, que é de US$ 3,2 trilhões. A indústria de office supplies, que integra o mercado B2B e o setor de distribuição, promovendo soluções de compras e aquisições de produtos indiretos para pequenas, médias e grandes empresas, enfrenta o desafio do uso do comércio eletrônico e dos impactos que essa tecnologia pode gerar no modelo de gestão dos profissionais de vendas. Frente ao exposto, o objetivo geral deste trabalho é compreender os impactos do uso do comércio eletrônico no trabalho dos profissionais de vendas no mercado B2B na indústria de office supplies. Complementarmente, foi possível identificar as diferenças e as semelhanças, entre a visão dos gestores comerciais e a dos profissionais de vendas, assim como as novas demandas e desafios para a gestão da força de trabalho no setor. Em relação à metodologia utilizada, optou-se por dois tipos de pesquisas: a primeira exploratória em livros e artigos acadêmicos, e a segunda por meio de pesquisa qualitativa exploratória na qual foram entrevistados oito profissionais de vendas e três gestores comerciais, entre as três maiores empresas da indústria de office supplies do Estado de São Paulo. Os resultados apurados pela pesquisa são: o uso do comércio eletrônico causa impacto no trabalho dos profissionais de vendas, na medida em que altera as carreiras, o padrão de remuneração e de atuação dos vendedores, transformando esses profissionais em consultores focados em produtos e no suporte à carteira de clientes. Isso gera um conflito entre o comércio eletrônico e o canal tradicional de vendas a ser administrado, na medida em que há uma percepção de concorrência entre a ferramenta tecnológica e o trabalho dos vendedores; contexto no qual as visões dos profissionais de vendas e as dos gestores não coincidem quanto aos impactos. Por último, as contribuições deste estudo, na medida de sua ampliação, vão além do ambiente acadêmico e servem para alertar os profissionais do mercado B2B na indústria de office supplies sobre as mudanças do trabalho e os desafios de suas carreiras