Thematic Lines

Human Resources Management and Organizational Behavior

The Human Resources Management and Organizational Behavior session of TMS Algarve 2025 invites researchers in this significant field of management to submit theoretical and theoretical-empirical articles dealing with issues involving people and their management within organizations, regardless of their sector or size. As such, we are interested in discussing human resource management policies and practices, aspects of human behavior in organizations, issues involving power and work relations, as well as others that are emerging in various local, national and global contexts, such as the influence of technological and digital development or the relevance of remote working. Thinking about and rethinking these issues brings up the undeniable importance of the human being in the productive scenario, their difficulties and potential, whether observed individually or collectively. We therefore focus on the following topics:

On Human Resources Management Policies and Practices:

• Recruitment, selection, socialization and retention of human talent;
• Training and development of people, multilevel learning (individual, group-collective, organizational);
• Functional assessment (performance, results and potential);
• Remuneration, benefits and rewards;
• Competencies and management of/by competencies;
• Professionalization, careers and retirement;
• Knowledge management;
• Management and managers;
• Onboarding and offboarding strategies and processes;

On Organizational Behavior:

Classic themes, such as:

• At the individual level: motivation, satisfaction, decision-making process,
• At the team/group level: leadership, communication/feedback,
• At the organizational level: culture, change;

Emerging themes, such as:

• personal/human values,
• quality of life at work,
• occupational stress,
• burnout syndrome,
• well-being and malaise at work,
• meanings of work,
• engagement at work,
• organizational bonds (commitment, entrenchment, consent),
• perceptions of justice in organizations,
• support at work (organizational, social),
• citizenship behaviors,
• counterproductive behaviors;

On Power Relations and Work:

• Workforce management;
• Conflict management processes;
• Working conditions, workers’ health and precariousness;
• Resistance, resilience and fatigue management;
• Trade unionism and collective bargaining;On emerging issues:

• Differences, diversities, intersectionalities, discrimination and violence at work, taking into account gender, skin color/race, generations, sexual orientation, aesthetic orientation, etc.;
• Digital, face-to-face, remote, hybrid and teleworking platforms and work: opportunities and impacts on workers, work and organizations;
• Working in adverse conditions and crises (political, economic, climatic, health);
• International human resource management;
• Diasporas, migrations, mobilities and their impact on workers and work;
• Artificial intelligence (AI): opportunities and impacts on workers, work and organizations;
• Foreigners, exiles and refugees in the labor market;
• People management and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)

Other topics related to the thematic line are welcome.