Catarina BrandãoUniversity of Porto | UP · Faculty of Psychology and Education Sciences
Catarina Brandão
PhD
Assistant Professor at FPCEUP
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Always curious about human behavior in organizational context!
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September 1996 - September 2001
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Online Recruitment (OR) is a growing trend. It takes place online, using tools that enable the receipt of applications, the search for professionals, a quick triage and provision of feedback to applicants. This exploratory research aims to describe perceptions of this tool, gathering data from potential job candidates and personnel stakeholders. Da...
Digital Tools and Techniques
in Qualitative Research: Digital Skills
and Research Optimisation
Mfanelo Pat Ntsobi
Catarina Brandão
, António Pedro Costa
, and Jaime Ribeiro
, Judita Kasperiuniene
,
Abstract The landscape of qualitative research has been radically transformed by
integrating digital technologies, heightening the potential f...
Introdução/Enquadramento: A pandemia Covid-19 trouxe diversos desafios a nível económico e laboral, social e organizacional, tendo as organizações que adotar estratégias para garantir o seu funcionamento, mas também garantir e promover a saúde e bem-estar dos trabalhadores. Questão de Investigação/Objetivos: Este estudo teve como objetivo identific...
The intent of research is to improve the lives of individuals and communities. Through qualitative research specifically, we can deepen our understanding of reality and investigate the nuances of how people experience and make meaning from it. Qualitative research, as a scientific approach, enables researchers to examine phenomena from the point of...
Considering the possible new challenge of managing a diverse workforce, it is crucial to understand how leaders manage this challenge. The Theory of Attachment-Based Exploratory Interest Sharing (TABEIS) provides a robust framework to understand how managing a diverse workforce is experienced by leaders and if it is experienced as a threat, with a...
This article reports on a study about higher education students' perceptions of the teaching situation in Portugal during the pandemic, with the purpose of investigating: (i) what challenges did students feel?; (ii) how did institutions provide support to students?; and (iii) what expectations do students have about the continuity of their academic...
As we write these words, the COVID-19 pandemic has become part of our lives in a much more controlled way. For instance, some of our habits have changed and we are able to resume our activities in the way of a “new normal,” returning to social contact with family, friends, and colleagues. In returning to a life without the constraint of the virus a...
Volume 11 aggregates works that, having been originally presented at WCQR2022 (held inan online format), went through a double-blind review process. This volume, annually edited (as WCQR is an annual event), allows us, as editors, to condense a diverse set of qualitative research work, focusing on different topics, and with different methodological...
A importância crescente da investigação Qualitativa nas Ciências Sociais é inquestionável. Não basta recolher elevadas quantidades de dados; é preciso saber analisá-los de modo significativo e aprofundado. Se por um lado aumenta a facilidade de recolher um volumoso corpus de dados por outro lado aumenta a necessidade de desenvolver a competência de...
The world of work has been severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic due to the high instability observed in the labor market, bringing several new challenges for leaders and employees. The present study aims to analyze the role of organizational and job resources in predicting employees’ job insecurity during the first wave of the COVID-19 outbre...
The COVID-19 pandemic brought massive disruption, as it strongly impacted several dimensions of people’s life. All over the world, organizations were forced to stop presential activities and adopt teleworking, except for front-line workers, who had to continue their presential activity, hence being more vulnerable to the virus. As we adjusted ourse...
O estágio curricular é uma etapa formativa fundamental no desenvolvimento pessoal e profissional, proporcionando um contacto direto do estudante com o mundo de trabalho. Esta investigação
explorou o papel do estágio curricular em psicologia na transição para o mercado de trabalho. Para isso, foram realizados dois estudos com design qualitativo. O E...
INVESTIGAÇÃO EM RH DURANTE A PANDEMIA - Implicações da Pandemia COVID-19 na GRH e nos trabalhadores do setor da Restauração em Portugal.
Resumo Um dos desafios atuais dos líderes é a gestão de uma força de trabalho cada vez mais diversificada (Ng & Sears, 2020), nomeadamente a nível cultural, dada a intensificação da globalização (Samnani et al., 2012). Esta diversidade cultural pode ser representada por uma força de trabalho composta por diferentes grupos culturais (Seymen, 2006),...
Thematic analysis (TA), chosen as an analysis tool for this study, provides accessible and systematic procedures for the generation of codes and themes from qualitative data. The study was conducted with representatives of employers' and trade union associations in the catering area, the interviews were conducted in an online and in-person format,...
COVID-19 has brought an unexpected need for change within organizations, particularly regarding human resource management. The nature of this global crisis has meant that these processes remain under-systematized. The aim of this study, which uses an exploratory design and mixed-methods analysis, is to contribute to describing the changes in human...
Two qualitative descriptive studies were conducted: Study 1-semi-structured interviews with three students who were performing or who had already undergone the psychology curricular internship. Study 2-online structured questionnaire (with open-ended questions) to 30 individuals working in the field of psychology. Qualitative data were analyzed usi...
Introduction: The curricular internship is a formative step of great impact in the personal and professional development of the student for allowing a direct contact with the world of work. This research aims to understand the role of the curricular internship in the transition to the job market of psychology students.
Method: Two qualitative desc...
This work focuses on the evaluation of leader development programs in organizational contexts.
This single longitudinal case study focuses on the transition to a leadership position.
O presente guia apresenta um conjunto de recomendações práticas e gerais, orientadas para a gestão de Recursos Humanos em situação de crise, e passíveis de serem adaptadas aos diferentes tipos de organização, independentemente da sua dimensão ou natureza da atividade.
This guide provides a set of practical and general recommendations for Human Resources managers in crisis situations. It can be adapted for different types of organisations, regardless of their size or the nature of their activity.
O presente guia apresenta um conjunto de recomendações práticas e gerais, focadas na
atenuação ou mesmo eliminação das dificuldades sentidas a nível da desigualdade de género, adaptação ao trabalho, conciliação trabalho-família e bem-estar, e passíveis de serem adaptadas a qualquer realidade, independentemente da situação laboral, económica, social...
This guide provides a set of practical and general recommendations focused on the mitigation or
even elimination of the difficulties experienced in terms of gender inequality, adaptation to work,
work-family balance and well-being. It can be adapted to any reality, regardless of work, economic,
social or family situation.
This paper focuses on the use of latent corpus from the internet to explore HR professionals’ work experience when Portugal first declared a state of emergency in March 2020 due to the pandemic outbreak. Given that little is known about the experience of human resources (HR) professionals in managing the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in organisat...
This second volume of 'New Trends in Qualitative Research: Practices and Challenges" includes selected papers presented at the 5th annual World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR) held virtually from 20-22 January 2021. There are 8 chapters in this volume: four report on qualitative studies, three are literature reviews and one is a review of...
As an invited speaker at AQRA VIRTUAL COLLOQUIUM #9, I had the oportunity to present how I have been researching leadership and my methodological approach. I discussed what does it mean to humanize leadership processes and using a qualitative approach to conduct research that supports this.
A prática na Investigação Qualitativa: Experiências de Grupos de Investigação // La práctica en Investigación Cualitativa: Experiencias de Grupos de Investigación
As the use of Computer-assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) becomes recurrent in qualitative research, researchers who use this methodological approach need to consider how ethical issues present themselves when we use these types of tools. In this introductory text to the Special Issue of The Qualitative Report, we identify and dis...
The present study tries to give a contribution, describing the changes in HRM practices resulting from this pandemic and analyzing the perspectives for the future. 136 Portuguese companies participated, through the responses of human resources managers. The results show that the main changes are in the processes of safety at work, training, work or...
Objective:
How a woman copes with the pain might play a significant role in the management of chronic pelvic pain. This study aimed to understand the attitudes adopted by women with chronic pelvic pain (CPP) to deal with daily life problems caused by the illness.
Study design:
We conducted a qualitative study including 58 women diagnosed with ch...
Computer-assisted qualitative data analysis software (CAQDAS) provides tools that help researchers develop qualitative research projects. These software packages support users with tasks such as transcription analysis, text encoding and interpretation, writing and annotation, searching, recursive abstraction, and data mapping, enabling the use of d...
In October 2019, the 4th World Conference on Qualitative Research (WCQR) brought together scholars from different parts of the world in Porto, Portugal. That conference provided an international platform upon which scholars initiated conversations regarding practices and challenges in qualitative research, in both academic and corporate contexts. T...
A supervisão e a intervisão são práticas amplamente utilizadas e reconhecidas no desempenho profissional de áreas como a Psicologia e o Ensino, com a literatura a centrar-se, sobretudo, na sua utilização em contexto escolar e em contexto de Psicologia Clínica. Este artigo pretende, a partir de experiências profissionais concretas, substantificar o...
Este estudo tem por objetivo conhecer a vivência do processo de transição para um posto de liderança, explorando e descrevendo as estratégias que os indivíduos adotam para manter ativo o seu comportamento exploratório durante o processo. A investigação tem por base uma metodologia qualitativa, com recurso a entrevistas de história de vida, operacio...
Parecem ser vários os desafios, emoções e constrangimentos com os quais as mulheres se deparam para alcançarem posições de liderança nas organizações. Nesse seguimento, este estudo tem como objetivos descrever o processo de transição de mulheres para uma posição de liderança em contexto organizacional e as representações de jovens mulheres sobre o...
Leader development is a recent area of research, stemming from organizational practices that focus on leader development programs to gain competitive advantage. The overall objective of this research is to evaluate the leader development program implemented by an engineering non-profit organization.
Keywords: Leadership, Leadership development, Pr...
The aim of the study is to explore what HR professionals expressed about their work experience when Portugal first declared state of emergency in March 2020 due to the pandemic outbreak. In this paper we will explore the adopted methodological process to collect, manage and analyse this data.
This study explores the meanings underlying e-leaders construction of self-identity. E-leadership is fundamentally a social influence process that emerges in technology mediated environment and emphasizes changes in the ways of thinking and acting of leaders and followers towards common goals and overall improved performance. However, research on t...
Leader development is a recent area of research, stemming from organizational practices that focus on leader development programs to gain competitive advantage. Therefore, program evaluation gains importance, as it allows determining the value and efficiency of a program. The overall objective of this research is to evaluate the leader development...
O presente estudo explora o processo de tomada de decisão (TD) de líderes femininas e os pensamentos, as emoções e os comportamentos presentes nesse processo. O processo de tomada de decisão é fundamental em contexto organizacional, sendo influenciado por variáveis como as emoções, as cognições, as características do decisor e a cultura organizacio...
que teve lugar em Fortaleza, Brasil. Este periódico tem por objetivo refletir sobre diversos caminhos metodológicos privilegiados, especialmente, em estudos e pesquisas do campo de investigação na área da saúde nas suas múltiplas dimensões, como trabalho, educação/formação e políticas. Os artigos inscrevem-se em uma perspectiva fundamentada no rigo...
Este Handbook apresenta 11 capítulos que derivam do trabalho desenvolvido
por grupos de investigação que dinamizaram Painéis de Discussão no
CIAIQ2019, oriundos de quatro países que traduzem o eixo Ibero-Americano
(Brasil, Espanha, México e Portugal). Sem descurar a contextualização teórica
dos trabalhos realizados, dá-se intencionalmente desta...
O Congresso Ibero-Americano em Investigação Qualitativa (CIAIQ) é um evento que acontece anualmente, reunindo representantes da comunidade científica internacional que estudam e pesquisam nesta abordagem de investigação. Cada evento traz em seu bojo um diferencial que atrai cada vez mais participantes que se destacam
pelo compromisso com a excelênc...
EDITORIAL
O número 13, do volume 7, de abril de 2019, da Revista Pesquisa Qualitativa, é composto por 8 manuscritos, dos quais, 4 são estudos e 4 são pesquisas. Dos textos aprovados e publicados neste número, 6 são decorrentes do processo de avaliação em fluxo contínuo e 2 decorrentes de uma parceria com o 7º Congresso Ibero-Americano em Investigaç...
In recent decades there has been a transformation based on economic, social, cultural and political integration between countries, guided and fueled by the increasingly frenetic scientific and technical progress. Globalization triggers a new social and work paradigm in which it is possible to communicate and interact at any time, from anywhere, fac...
The learning of Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) can represent a great challenge and obstacle to the adoption of these tools in support of research. Thus, it seems imperative that CAQDAS developers devise strategies and tools that stimulate and support researchers in the learning process of their applications. To this e...
Technological growth and the inherent widespread use of internet-mediated technologies has been a constant throughout the years. Thus, in organizational settings, work changed in accordance, evolving to virtual forms. Furthermore, leadership remains central in these settings and even more when presential coexistence is not a constant. The e-leader...
This work focuses the assessment of individual potential in organizations and the development of a specific and contextual instrument and , reflecting on that process. Potential is defined at CEiiA (Centre for Engineering and Product Development) as the ability of people to develop skills in an environment that values individual and collective outc...
Leader development is a recent area of research, stemming from organizational practices that focus on leader development programs to gain competitive advantage. Therefore, program evaluation gains importance, as it allows determining the value and efficiency of a program. The overall objective of this research is to evaluate the leader development...
Technology has propelled significant changes in the way we establish social relationships. With the emergence of Internet and the online dating phenomenon, online relationships and intimacy were utterly redrafted to a swift and fleeting process that is predominantly envisioned as something negative, shallow and casual. Albeit dating apps have a dom...
This study focus on the representations of Millennials regarding cohabitation, the challenges associated to the process of transitioning to live with a partner and the strategies to use in order to manage cohabitation successfully. A qualitative exploratory study was conducted using an online questionnaire and a semi-structured interview with a cou...
Resumo. Este artigo procura sistematizar os desafios metodológicos com os quais se deparam investigadores que focam a liderança feminina, a partir do estudo do processo de transição de mulheres para uma posição de liderança em contexto organizacional. Os dados foram recolhidos com recurso a entrevistas semiestruturadas a mulheres que viveram recent...
Este livro contém os contributos dos Grupos de Investigação que
participaram no 7º Congresso Ibero-Americano em Investigação Qualitativa (CIAIQ2018), realizado em Fortaleza, Brasil, de 10 a 13 Julho de 2018. No total são apresentados os textos propostos pelos sete Grupos de Investigação, mais um texto sobre o processo de avaliação de artigos que,...
Editorial of Ciência & Saúde Coletiva, 23(1):4-5, 2018 - available in Portuguese and English.
Decision making is a fundamental process in organizational contexts. This study aims to explore the decision-making process in female leaders in organizations. It looks at the thoughts, emotions and behaviors experienced in that process, in order to understand the constraints that these leaders face and the strategies they adopt to manage them, hav...
Computer Assisted Qualitative Data Analysis Software (CAQDAS) are tools that help researchers to develop qualitative research projects. These software packages help the users with tasks such as transcription analysis, coding and text interpretation, writing and annotation, content search and analysis, recursive abstraction, grounded theory methodol...
Qualitative research: where do we stand now? Minayo highlights the complexity of human experience by stating, based on Kant (1724-1804), that "all phenomena have proportions of magnitude (quantitative) and profundity (qualitative) and that their understanding occurs when the synthesis of these two dimensions is made" (Minayo, 2016, p.19). The scien...
This paper (an editorial to a journal special issue) focus on the importance of Qualitative Research to Psychology.
Este estudo explora a vivência da liderança feminina e a conciliação deste papel com a maternidade. A recolha de dados aconteceu junto de quatro mulheres líderes e com filhos. Recorreuse ao método de histórias de vida, realizando-se duas entrevistas com cada participante. Os dados foram sujeitos à análise de conteúdo temática, com recurso ao NVivo1...
This paper focuses on the use of NVivo10 in the process of assessing a developmental program in goal-corrected emphatic attunement skills in the context of a psychology master’s program course. The authors present the way the software supported this work and discuss how it enabled a process of moving closer to and distancing themselves from the dat...
Resumo. Esta investigação pretende explorar e descrever a vivência e os significados da liderança feminina com recurso à técnica das histórias de vida. Procura-se perceber o significado de ser mulher líder atualmente, as expetativas de mulheres em posições de liderança e como estas conciliam o papel de líder com a maternidade. Os dados serão recolh...
Usabilidade Software de Análise Qualitativa (Auto)Aprendizagem Atlas.ti Dedoose QDA Miner MAXQDA NVivo webQDA RESUMO No processo de desenvolvimento de um software não se pode abdicar de um dos principais responsáveis pela eficiente utilização de uma aplicação, nesta circunstância a Usabilidade. Neste sentido, a Usabilidade apresenta-se como um elem...
One of the first precautions that a consumer/user has when acquiring a new product is related to how to use it. In this context, the user manuals can be assumed as one of the main communication channels between the companies that develop the products and the user. Regarding the use of software packages, literature indicates that one of the decisive...
A growing number of organizations use new technologies in Human Resource processes. Online recruitment tools allow receiving job applications, a quick triage and feedback to candidates. This exploratory research aims describing perceptions regarding this tool, using interviews with organizational informants and an online survey with potential job c...
The use of social network web based such as Facebook and LinkedIn continues increasing. This poses challenges and opportunities to workers and organizations. This research aims understanding how workers manage Facebook invitations from co-workers and supervisors and the impact of the way how workers manage being connected with other members of thei...
Este projeto assume o trabalho enquanto elemento central da existência humana e procura abordar diferentes aspectos associados a este contexto de vida. Propõe-se olhar para o contexto de trabalho enquanto um espaço onde o ser humano “é” e pode desenvolver-se, face a um conjunto de forças impulsoras e restritivas ao desenvolvimento das pessoas nas o...
Revista de
Psicologia, Educação e Saúde ou Revista E-Psi _____________________________________________________________________________________Work is a fundamental dimension of human life. It represents one of the cluster that includes the adult's main developmental tasks with a special influence on how everyone thinks of oneself and the value we...
This paper will take an evolutionary perspective on the dynamics of work relations and focus on the way in which change and creativity can be fostered or inhibited by organizational dynamics. It will focus on the kind of leadership necessary to support exploratory peer relationships amongst staff at all levels of the organization. It will introduce...
Nesta apresentação foco a Gestão de Recursos Humanos (GRH) na Administração Pública. Discorro sobre as características deste contexto organizacional, o New Public Management e o conceito de Motivação para a Administração Pública. De seguida, afunilo para a GRH na Administração Pública, apresentando resultados de investigação neste contexto, ao níve...
This paper presents an action research project under development at a Health Centre in the North of Portugal with General Practitioners. The goal of the project is to improve the doctor-patient relationship by means of the development of doctors' skills. We present the phases which have already been conducted and some ideas for the next phases of t...
This paper adopts the perspective that leaders, like parental figures, play a guiding, mentor and caregiver role, holding a higher position towards subordinates. Good leaders or supervisors, such as good parents, are responsive, supportive and seek to promote the autonomy of subordinates. They promote conditions for the subordinates' personal devel...
There is little knowledge regarding how the relationship between supervisors and subordinates is built. This study focuses on that process, according to the subordinates’ perspective—cognitions, behaviours and emotions. We conducted a qualitative study, gathering data from 12 subordinates using the Critical Incident Technique. Results show there ar...
The presence of women in today’s workforce, particularly in leadership positions, renders fundamental to deepen our knowledge regarding the exercise of women in organizations. This paper focuses on the
exercise of women in positions of leadership, reflecting and discussing about different approaches found in the literature, identifying the main con...
Este capítulo debruça-se sobre a utilização da metodologia do estudo de caso no campo da saúde, apresentando perspectivas diferenciadas e justificando a sua aplicabilidade. Procura contribuir para a sistematização dos critérios de qualidade que o investigador que adota esta metodologia deve respeitar, de forma a aumentar a qualidade das inferências...
A técnica dos incidentes críticos tem vindo a ser cada vez mais utilizada na intervenção, nomeadamente em contexto de formação e de desenvolvimento. Partindo da identificação de situações chave vividas em contexto de trabalho, procura-se aceder aos comportamentos, aos pensamentos e às emoções associadas a essas situações, potenciando desta forma pr...
This paper focuses on the use of NVivo10 in the process of evaluating a developmental program in Goal Corrected Emphatic Attunement skills in the context of a course in a Psychology master’s program. We present the way the software supported our work and discuss how it enabled a process of moving closer to and distancing ourselves from the data. We...
Os sistemas de Gestão e Avaliação do Desempenho são considerados importantes não só na Gestão de Recursos Humanos, mas em toda a Gestão Organizacional, tendo-se observado uma evolução bastante significativa neste conceito associado às ciências sociais e organizacionais. Partindo da literatura sobre a Gestão e Avaliação do Desempenho analisamos teor...
O presente trabalho de investigação foca o sistema medo do subordinado na sua relação com o líder em situações percebidas como críticas (difíceis e/ou problemáticas). Procurou-se identificar os comportamentos do líder passíveis de ativar no subordinado este sistema comportamental inato e explorar se o estilo de vinculação pode relacionar-se com o t...
Este estudo de caso foca o desempenho individual (DI) de gestores intermédios da Administração Pública Portuguesa, procurando clarificar a estrutura interna do seu DI, considerando as dimensões de desempenho de tarefa e contextual, propostas por Borman e Motowidlo (1993, 1997). Neste sentido, recolheu-se informação junto a dirigentes intermédios e...