Fatores de retenção e desligamento de pessoas numa empresa de supermercados em Fortaleza

Abstract

This work has as objective the analysis of staff retention and disconnection factors in a supermarkets company in Fortaleza, from the knowledge of the disconnections causes of staff in the company, as well as the investigation of the factors of influence in the decision of the staff in remain in the company. The relevance of the study is due the competitiveness increase in the supermarkets sector in Fortaleza and for the new necessities demanded in its administrative strategies for development and maintenance of competitive advantage. The study delineation turned toward the bibliographical research and case study, with exploratorily objective and of qualitative nature. The research was divided in two universes: universe of the disconnected staff and universe of the employees that have more than 2 years in the company. The analyzed data had been collected through disconnection interviews and interviews applied to the employees of the company. The theoretical referential evaluates the organizations description, in its more relevant characteristics for the retail segment, standing out the systemic and contingencial approaches. Conceptual and operational evolutions of human resources administration are also presented, passing through the business administration history, in its classic and humanistic boarding and following of the traditional human resources to the strategical human resources management. The motivational theories of Herzberg and Maslow are emphasized and described and the subsystems of human resources are characterized. The research demonstrates that the studied company bases its administration of human resources on a traditional boarding, and that many motivational techniques that leads to the a higher commitment of the employee are unconsidered. This aspect, however, is not the only one that influences in the decision to remain in the company. It is strongly verified, in the satisfaction or not of the employee, in its affinity with the position and in the proper conjuncture of the work market.