Jornada de carreira no escritório de advocacia Mattos Filho: dos silos ao trabalho colaborativo

• Autor(a) principal: Pinheiro, Marcelo
• Data de Publicação: 2023
• Outros Autores: Rigato Vasconcellos, Luis Henrique, Davis Mattar, Laura, Di Lauro, Fabiana, Maiorino, Renata
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: GVcasos
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.fgv.br/gvcasos/article/view/89577

After the successful remodeling of the management and compensation processes of its partners initiated in 2009, the law firm Mattos Filho started, in 2016, the extension of this change in the organizational culture to all professionals in the firm. The main objective was to transpose the individual work of technical excellence, predominant in the legal market, to promote collaborative work, which counted on the strength of the group with complementary legal knowledge. José Eduardo, then Managing Partner, was in charge, together with the Executive Committee and the leadership of the firm, to promote this cultural change based on a model of hiring, development, and continuous management of talents, maintaining technical excellence and high performance, to offer clients solutions to complex legal cases. Cultural change should be based on a broad transformational journey of workplace culture that rewards individual outcomes for an emphasis on collaborative work, based on three sets of actions: (1) attraction, recruitment, and selection of top talent, including diverse (2) processes and practices for the continuous development of professionals, and (3) organizational development initiatives,  that further stimulate collaborative work, thus ensuring the sustainable growth of the firm in the long term, with engaged, collaborative professionals with technical excellence that generate high profitability. As is well known, high-level law firms are made up of lawyers who have established a reputation based on the application of their distinctive technical expertise, valuing individual performance over collaborative work. José Eduardo, then, is faced with an important challenge: "how to transpose the individual and teamwork carried out in silos, which currently predominate in the office, to a work that values integration and collaboration between practices?  The application of this teaching case is aimed at students of business administration courses in subjects related to Human Resources management, especially people management strategies to support the cultural transformation of organizations.