People Management

Coordinator: Heliani Berlato, PhD

Assistant Coordinator: Helio Arthur Reis Irigaray, PhD
Temas e Líderes:
Questions related to gender, LGBTQI, PCDs, intersectionalities, masculinities, femininities, queer theory, and work-non work relationship.


Career types and trends. Career management and succession. Expatriation. Coaching and mentoring. Generations of professionals.


Team leadership and management. Leadership theories and their applications. Styles, roles and models of management and leadership in organizations. Leadership development.

Convergences and divergences between theoretical frameworks and policies, models, and practices for managing people that are institutionalized or not within the context of organizations, depending on the size of the company. Policies, models, and practices for improving people management and its functions, such as recruitment, selection, performance management, workplace hygiene, and safety, evaluating results, as well as reformulating the people management area in organizations and the processes for communication between members of the organization and management by competencies.


Values, Meanings and Bonds at/at work: Values (human, personal, at work, organizational), Meanings and meanings at/at work, Organizational bonds (commitment, consent, entrenchment) and related emerging themes.
Work, its meaning (or absence of it), and the ways organizations seek quality of life, satisfaction, forms of recognition, and rewards. We welcome critical approaches and reflections regarding the individual-organization and individual-work relationships.