The case of organizational behavior in Portuguese junior enterprises: Embeddedness, work-life balance, motivation and satisfaction

• Autor(a) principal: Filipe, Sónia Maria Ribeiro
• Data de Publicação: 2013
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Idioma: eng
• Título da fonte: Repositório Científico de Acesso Aberto de Portugal (Repositórios Cientìficos)
• Texto Completo: http://hdl.handle.net/10071/9958
• topic: Job embeddedness; Satisfaction; Work-life balance; Junior enterprises; Integração; Satisfação; Balanço vida-trabalho; Júnior Empresas

In nowadays’ context, it is becoming increasingly important for the new entrants in the labor market to differentiate themselves from the others and to be perceived as relevant and valuable human resources. In order to achieve this, students are starting to engage in several different initiatives that improve their résumé, such as Junior Enterprises. This type of enterprises, which were created in 1967, has been developed in several countries, with special incidence in European ones and also in Brazil. In short, they appear as an opportunity for the university’s students to apply their knowledge into real companies, which are their clients. Therefore, in order to deliver a good service, Junior Enterprises must assure a good performance from their members, which, according to several different authors, can be acknowledged through Job Embeddedness, Work-Life Balance, Motivation and Satisfaction. Thus, this research, which was conducted with a sample of Portuguese Junior Entrepreneurs, concluded that Satisfaction impacts positively on Performance, as well as Work-Family Conflict. Other important conclusions of the present research were that Satisfaction acts as a mediator between Job Embeddedness and Performance, and also that Family-Work Conflict does not have a relationship with Performance. Regarding Motivation, it was not possible to study the relationship of this variable with any other, due to the lack of confirmation of required dimensions.