Talent management in the technological sector in Portugal

• Autor(a) principal: Palma, Inês Figueira Lampreia
• Data de Publicação: 2022
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/27708
• topic: Employee Value Proposition; Technology; Attraction; Development; Retention; Proposta de valor; Tecnologia; Atração; Desenvolvimento; Retenção

This research aims to understand what the human resource practices being utilized in the technological sector in Portugal are. Aiming to get a better understanding regarding how companies in this sector attract and recruit the best talent, develop their skills and how they maintain these types of employees working with them. All of these research guiding topics leading to the following focus question: do companies in the technological sector in Portugal have a defined Employee Value Proposition and do they use it for their benefit? To understand this, three interviews were conducted with human resource professionals from companies with different sizes and based in different areas of the technological sector present in Portugal – Company A, Warpcom and Huawei, which are companies from the telecommunications, service providers, and information and communications technology provider ranging from small and medium enterprises, multinational companies and one of the top 10 companies in the portuguese market. Even though the companies considered have very different characteristics, there are common human resources practices among them. However, an important factor for all employers in this sector in the future should be to companies invest in the development and differentiation of their Employee Value Proposition and to divulge it among their candidates and employees. Besides that, it is also clear the impact that globalisation has on this sector and the difficulty it imposes to employers.