COLONIZAÇÃO E NEOCOLONIZAÇÃO DA GESTÃO DE RECURSOS HUMANOS NO BRASIL (1950-2010)

Human resource management, as a practical field of business administration and as a teaching and research area, has developedvigorously in Brazil. The objective of this critical essay is to present an historical analysis of this evolution over the last 60 years. To do so we characterize and analyze...

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Main Authors: Thomaz Wood Jr., Maria José Tonelli, Bill Cooke
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Fundação Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São Paulo 2011-05-01
Series:RAE: Revista de Administração de Empresas
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Online Access:http://rae.fgv.br/sites/rae.fgv.br/files/artigos/10.1590_S0034-75902011000300003.pdf
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description Human resource management, as a practical field of business administration and as a teaching and research area, has developedvigorously in Brazil. The objective of this critical essay is to present an historical analysis of this evolution over the last 60 years. To do so we characterize and analyze two periods: 1950-1980, which we call colonization; and 1980-2010, which we call neo-colonization. For each period we present the political and economic context, the changes that occurred in human resource management and the corresponding discourse. Our analysis adopts the perspective of post-colonialism, a rising tide in research in organizational studies, and introduces and uses the perspective of tropicalism, a genuinely local approach, which is derived from the cultural movements of the 1960s. We argue that human resource management developed in Brazil from a colonization movement that came from abroad. This movement, which involved both colonizers and colonized, comprised asymmetries in terms of power, but also included interdependence and re-creations
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spelling doaj.art-b61212a8e28a438db9e8c3b58d9aba1d2023-09-02T14:40:02ZengFundação Getulio Vargas, Escola de Administração de Empresas de São PauloRAE: Revista de Administração de Empresas0034-75902178-938X2011-05-01513232243COLONIZAÇÃO E NEOCOLONIZAÇÃO DA GESTÃO DE RECURSOS HUMANOS NO BRASIL (1950-2010)Thomaz Wood Jr.Maria José TonelliBill CookeHuman resource management, as a practical field of business administration and as a teaching and research area, has developedvigorously in Brazil. The objective of this critical essay is to present an historical analysis of this evolution over the last 60 years. To do so we characterize and analyze two periods: 1950-1980, which we call colonization; and 1980-2010, which we call neo-colonization. For each period we present the political and economic context, the changes that occurred in human resource management and the corresponding discourse. Our analysis adopts the perspective of post-colonialism, a rising tide in research in organizational studies, and introduces and uses the perspective of tropicalism, a genuinely local approach, which is derived from the cultural movements of the 1960s. We argue that human resource management developed in Brazil from a colonization movement that came from abroad. This movement, which involved both colonizers and colonized, comprised asymmetries in terms of power, but also included interdependence and re-creationshttp://rae.fgv.br/sites/rae.fgv.br/files/artigos/10.1590_S0034-75902011000300003.pdfHuman resource managementpeople managementpost-colonialismtropicalismmanagement ideologymanagement culture
spellingShingle Thomaz Wood Jr.
Maria José Tonelli
Bill Cooke
COLONIZAÇÃO E NEOCOLONIZAÇÃO DA GESTÃO DE RECURSOS HUMANOS NO BRASIL (1950-2010)
RAE: Revista de Administração de Empresas
Human resource management
people management
post-colonialism
tropicalism
management ideology
management culture
title COLONIZAÇÃO E NEOCOLONIZAÇÃO DA GESTÃO DE RECURSOS HUMANOS NO BRASIL (1950-2010)
title_full COLONIZAÇÃO E NEOCOLONIZAÇÃO DA GESTÃO DE RECURSOS HUMANOS NO BRASIL (1950-2010)
title_fullStr COLONIZAÇÃO E NEOCOLONIZAÇÃO DA GESTÃO DE RECURSOS HUMANOS NO BRASIL (1950-2010)
title_full_unstemmed COLONIZAÇÃO E NEOCOLONIZAÇÃO DA GESTÃO DE RECURSOS HUMANOS NO BRASIL (1950-2010)
title_short COLONIZAÇÃO E NEOCOLONIZAÇÃO DA GESTÃO DE RECURSOS HUMANOS NO BRASIL (1950-2010)
title_sort colonizacao e neocolonizacao da gestao de recursos humanos no brasil 1950 2010
topic Human resource management
people management
post-colonialism
tropicalism
management ideology
management culture
url http://rae.fgv.br/sites/rae.fgv.br/files/artigos/10.1590_S0034-75902011000300003.pdf
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