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 to improve people management and its functions, such as recruitment, selection, performance management, occupational health and safety, results evaluation, as well as the reformulation of the people management area in organizations and the communication processes among the members of the organization, and competence-based management.

Values, Meanings and Bonds in/from work: Values (human, personal, at work, organizational), Meanings and significances in/from work, Organizational bonds (commitment, consent, entrenchment) and related emerging themes.

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.

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 relationship.

This theme aims to discuss, from different epistemological, theoretical and methodological approaches, the various dynamics of work in the face of countless economic, social and technological transformations.

Among the possible interests of this theme are:

- Flexibilization and alternative forms of hiring labor.
- Precariousness and exploitation of work in different contexts.
- Uberization and platformization of work.
- Independent workers and individual micro-entrepreneurs.
- Artificial Intelligence, social media and their impacts on organizations and work.
- Power, control and resistance at work.
- Informality, self-employment and survival entrepreneurship.
- Labor market, poverty and inequalities.
- Work in contexts of migration and refuge.
- Trade unionism and collective action of workers.
- Contradictions between work, capitalism and the State.
- Labor legislation and public policies.