Jairo Eduardo Borges-Andrade

Jairo Eduardo Borges-Andrade
University of Brasília | UnB · Institute of Psychology

PhD

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Introduction
PhD, Florida St Univ., 1979. Human resources researcher & strategic manager, Brazilian Corp. for Agricult. Research, 1979-1993. Full professor, Univ. Brasilia - UnB, 1993-2019. Emeritus Prof, UnB, 2021. Active Senior Researcher, at UnB, supported by a CNPq scholarship. Sabbatical leaves: Intern. Food Policy Research Inst., 1990; Univ. Sheffield & Gröningen, 2001; Instituto Universitário de Lisboa, 2010. Previous management positions: Capes (Psych.), CNPq (Psych.), ANPEPP, SBPOT, CFP and CRP-01.
Additional affiliations
June 2019 - June 2019
University of Bologna
Position
  • Professor
February 2019 - present
University of Brasília
Position
  • Senior Researcher
February 2016 - March 2016
University of Coimbra
Position
  • Professor
Education
March 1976 - March 1979
Florida State University
Field of study
  • Instructional Systems
March 1969 - August 1972
University of Brasília
Field of study
  • Psychology

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Publications (186)
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Resumo A relevância da justiça organizacional para melhoria da relação entre trabalhadores e organizações conferiu ao tema destaque em cenário internacional nas últimas décadas. No Brasil, discrepâncias entre as contribuições nacionais e estrangeiras foram apontadas pela última revisão do tema, em 2005. Assim, buscando responder como as dimensões d...
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The relevance of organizational justice for the improvement of the relationship between workers and organizations has given the theme a prominent role on the international stage in recent decades. In Brazil, discrepancies between national and foreign contributions were pointed out by the last review on the subject, in 2005. Thus, this study analyze...
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O e-book Desenho & Redesenho do Trabalho - Modelos e ferramentas de apoio à gestão é fruto de estudos empíricos sobre desenho do trabalho realizados por pesquisadora(e)s de diversos programas de pós-graduação. Os capítulos abordam temas relevantes para quem atua com gestão de pessoas e/ou elaboração de políticas e práticas relativas a bem-estar, de...
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Livro organizado por Gardênia da Silva Abbad, Jairo Eduardo Borges-Andrade, Luciana Mourão e Sonia Maria Guedes Gondim Acesso ao eBook: http://vetoreditora.rds.land/e-book-desenho-e-redesenho https://books.google.com.br/books?id=lNNkEAAAQBAJ&printsec=frontcover&hl=pt-BR#v=onepage&q&f=false
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Purpose This paper aims to find a measurement model with better evidence of validity, with data extracted from the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC). To test a parsimonious model in which dispositional and workplace context characteristics are predictors of informal learning behaviors (ILBs). Design/methodology...
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The objective of this paper is to propose guidelines to a national leadership research agenda, through a synthesis of Brazilian scientific production and comparison with foreign literature. A semi-systematic review was conducted, including the most recent empirical papers published in national journals. Fifty-two articles, published in nineteen psy...
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The individual coaching process is a growing intervention used in work organizations. The investment in this tool is justified by the belief that a worker can develop skills, change behaviors, and achieve goals with the help of a professional coach. This would result in better individual and organizational performance. However, little is known abou...
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and Methodist of São Paulo (Brazil). He was responsible for more than 30 research projects with a length of time larger than two years, supported by local, Spanish, and European agencies. These projects had goals related to methodological development and knowledge production. They covered a wide range of topics such as well-being at work, burnout a...
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Tradeoff analysis, between generalizability, precision, and realism, guides methodological choices in organizational behavior. These methodological choices were systematically reviewed in Brazilian articles and books (1996-2017) to answer the following question: why are there no Brazilian studies on organizational behavior that use big data or anal...
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Concerning the crisis caused by the pandemic COVID-19, several measures were adopted by the authorities that impacted people in general, but we have especial impacts in the work context. Among them is the social distance that has resulted in compulsory teleworking. As an action to support workers, the Brazilian Association of Organizational and Wor...
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Purpose This paper aims to identify relevant aspects to achieve advantage of the innovative potential of a human resource information system (HRIS). The present study compared the system implementation professionals’ perception of the results expected from the system, its characteristics and how it should be implemented. Design/methodology/approac...
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Complex work environments require continuous development, promoted by professionals themselves, when those environments are favorable. The relationships between work design, learning strategies used by individuals, and professional development are the focus of this article. Data collection took place in three moments over six months. It involved 91...
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A rotatividade de pessoal é um fenômeno multicausal e natural nas organizações, porém, em altas taxas, pode ocasionar prejuízos à sustentabilidade financeira e à memória institucional. Objetivou-se analisar a produção científica empírica brasileira sobre rotatividade de pessoal nas organizações de 1996 a 2015. Foram consultados periódicos com tradi...
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Business success depends on the speed at which people can acquire and transfer new ideas and information. This study aimed to obtain factorial and predictive evidence of validity, in Brazil, of the Learning Transfer System Inventory – LTSI. Its 89 items were answered by 898 members of seven Brazilian organizations, at the end of training and develo...
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O sucesso das empresas dependerá da velocidade com que as pessoas possam adquirir e transferir novas ideias e informações. Um instrumento que diagnostica fatores que afetam a transferência de treinamento foi estudado no Brasil, visando a obtenção de evidências de validação fatorial e preditiva. É chamado Learning Transfer System Inventory – LTSI, c...
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Work design refers to the study, creation, and modification of the composition, content, structure of tasks and roles and the environment in which they are performed. A measure with evidence of validity is necessary to understand the impact of work design on people and organizations. To obtain such evidence in the Brazilian context, we conducted tw...
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The general objective of this chapter is to investigate Learning Strategies (LSts) at the work of Brazilian junior entrepreneurs (university students). Two studies were performed. In the first study, 40 new and old junior entrepreneurs have participated in collective semi structured interviews. They were asked about the performance demands that rai...
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Discorre-se sobre o desenvolvimento brasileiro da psicologia do trabalho e das organizações, com o foco na sua formação pós-graduada e produção científica. Inicia-se pela demarcação conceitual. Na seção subsequente, argumenta-se a favor da relação entre o crescimento e a diversificação da subárea e também a expansão da pós-graduação no Brasil. Segu...
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I understand that my most important contribution is on integration. An evaluation model that I proposed in the 1970s, which I still use for conducting research and promoting interventions on training and development, reveals this intention to integrate. Two decades later, a method I developed for literature reviewing on organizational behavior also...
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The objective is to compare the empirical research on learning at work carried out in Brazilian public and private organizations, published in the last 20 years in 18 scientific journals of business and psychology. Out of 95 selected articles, 34 exclusively report research in the public sector and 39 in the private sector. There are other 22 artic...
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The objective is to compare the empirical research on learning at work carried out in Brazilian public and private organizations, published in the last 20 years in 18 scientific journals of business and psychology. Out of 95 selected articles, 34 exclusively report research in the public sector and 39 in the private sector. There are other 22 artic...
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The objective is to compare the empirical research on learning at work carried out in Brazilian public and private organizations, published in the last 20 years in 18 scientific journals of business and psychology. Out of 95 selected articles, 34 exclusively report research in the public sector and 39 in the private sector. There are other 22 artic...
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Despite the popularity of the organizational culture construct in the organizational psychology´s practice, it is important to scrutinize the theoretical and methodological quality standards of its principles in Brazil. The present study investigated 27 articles targeting at an organization´s culture, in 18 psychology and administration top-ranked...
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The aim of this study was to gather new evidences of validity for the Learning Strategies at Work Scale (LSW). Especially, we intended to verify the initially proposed factor structure and to reduce items as to obtain a higher level of parsimony. We further addressed testing the LSW’s invariance across occupations, with potentially discrepant work...
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This article aims to describe the Brazilian development of work and organizational psychology, with a focus on its graduate training and scientific production. It begins by defining concepts. The following section argues in favor of the relationship between growth and diversification of the subarea and the expansion of graduate programs in Brazil....
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Sobrequalificação percebida é a situação na qual o indivíduo se percebe possuidor de qualificação maior do que aquela exigida por seu trabalho. Tal situação tem sido encontrada relacionada a atitudes negativas e comportamentos indesejados no trabalho. No Brasil, não há instrumentos para mensuração da sobrequalificação percebida. O objetivo deste es...
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Work and Organizational Psychology (WOP) should consider the amalgam of values, organizational and legal arrangements, economic blocs, languages, and peoples of Latin America. In addition, it is necessary to seek the development and validation of universal frames of reference that make generalization possible in Latin America and in other regions....
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Individuals and organizations develop strategies that facilitate or promote training in order to meet the demands imposed by technological progress and socio-political changes. However, there are methodological problems concerning the effects of such strategies which must be considered. Gaps persist on how to overcome those issues. To address this...
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Purpose This paper aims to investigate the prediction of current and evolutionary perceptions of professional development through five learning strategies at work and through training and how individual and job characteristics predict those strategies. Design/methodology/approach Variables were measured in a cross-sectional survey, with 962 indivi...
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The prediction of entrepreneurial competencies on the perception of business performance by creative industries professionals was tested. Performance was measured based on the entrepreneurs’ perception concerning their satisfaction with the enterprise performance indicators (e.g., profitability) and their social relationships and career (e.g., the...
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Este trabalho revisa a produção científica brasileira sobre comportamento organizacional no terceiro setor. Utilizou-se um levantamento pré-existente de pesquisas empíricas sobre micro comportamento organizacional, publicadas em 15 periódicos nacionais de Psicologia e Administração, no período de 1996 a 2012. Do total de 629 artigos sobre o tema, a...
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O empreendedorismo criativo ganhou importância nas últimas décadas com o surgimento das indústrias criativas. A definição de metas e a capacidade individual de autorregulação são apontadas como preditores de empreendedorismo. O objetivo deste estudo foi identificar características de validade de uma escala de autorregulação e testar a hipótese de h...
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This paper systematically reviews empirical articles on careers, specifically from the micro-organizational behavior perspective. The papers were published as recently as June 2012 in the SciELO Brasil and PePSIC databases. Approximately 20 terms such as career, professional trajectory, and professional path were used to retrieve papers. In the end...
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O empreendedorismo criativo ganhou importância nas últimas décadas com o surgimento das indústrias criativas. A definição de metas e a capacidade individual de autorregulação são apontadas como preditores de empreendedorismo. O objetivo deste estudo foi identificar características de validade de uma escala de autorregulação e testar a hipótese de h...
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This paper systematically reviews empirical articles on careers, specifically from the micro-organizational behavior perspective. The papers were published as recently as June 2012 in the SciELO Brasil and PePSIC databases. Approximately 20 terms such as career, professional trajectory, and professional path were used to retrieve papers. In the end...
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The term Organizational Citizenship holds a theoretical history of 37 years and an empirical history of 31 years. Its importance is highlighted by researchers and professionals internationally. In the decade of 2000, the number of international meta-analyses addressing the issue increased, as well as the number of articles reviewed in these meta-an...
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A B s t r a c t ● This paper presents a critical analysis of the development of the professional field of Psychology in Brazil and of the training of its professionals, at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Some previous studies are used for describing that field and this training. They have been taken in to account, in order to provide a post...
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Leadership, a theme belonging to the organizational behavior field, has been intensively studied on the international scene for about a century. What about in Brazil? This paper aims to analyze the Brazilian scientific production on leadership published in 15 national psychology and management journals between 1996 and 2013. It consists of a system...
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Research about the meaning of work faces theoretical and practical challenges, such as empirically distinguishing between the meaning and meaningfulness of work. This study aims to explore the similarities and distinctions between the two concepts and how these reflect on the perception of tensions in the performance of one’s professional activitie...
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O objetivo deste artigo é realizar uma análise fatorial confirmatória de um modelo canadense de trabalho com sentido. Participaram desta pesquisa 446 profissionais das indústrias criativas das regiões centro-oeste e nordeste do Brasil. Esses participantes responderam à Escala do Trabalho com Sentido (ETS), composta por 25 itens. Foram testados tant...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate workplace learning among municipal officers in the high-learning-demanding organizational context of their work practice in the first year of mandate. Design/methodology/approach – A before-and-after quasi-experimental design was used to assess the effect of time of work practice on learning wo...
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Este estudo teve como objetivo analisar as características psicométricas da escala "Estratégias para Aplicação no Trabalho do Aprendido em Treinamento" por meio da teoria de resposta ao item. Com um banco de dados secundário composto por 1241 participantes, foram calibrados dezoito itens, por meio do uso do modelo de resposta gradual. Dez itens per...
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Contemporary transformations taking place in the nature of work demand flexible and reflective workers capable of keeping up-to-date with constantly changing technology. This chapter describes informal learning and its role for the development of individuals in workplaces. It is structured around a comprehensive workplace learning model, which may...
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O estudo teve como objetivo testar horas de treinamento e utilização de estratégias de aprendizagem no trabalho como variáveis preditoras da expressão de competências de liderança dentre gestores de equipes. Liderança foi definida como o processo pelo qual o gestor e sua equipe interagem de forma ética e se influenciam mutuamente para alcançar obje...
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The purpose of this study was to analyze the Brazilian and foreign research undertaken with the variable "beliefs in the context of work". The method included the systematic analysis of scientific journals from the Business Administration and Psychology areas. Both research efforts converge in their methodological aspects. Quantitative studies prev...
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This study sought to analyze the Brazilian scientific production in 2000-2010 on employee's linkages with the organization, covering four main topics: organizational commitment, psychological contracts, organizational citizenship and perceptions of support, justice and equity. The importance of these issues to micro-organizational research and the...
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Objective: Analyzing the scientific literature on the evaluation of formal educational processes for healthcare professionals. Methodology: Integrative literature review in which were reviewed the following databases: VHL, Pubmed and Cochrane. The final sample was composed of 19 articles in Portuguese, English and Spanish published from 2000 to...
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Objective. Analyzing the scientific literature on the evaluation of formal educational processes for healthcare professionals. Methodology. Integrative literature review in which were reviewed the following databases: VHL, Pubmed and Cochrane. The final sample was composed of 19 articles in Portuguese, English and Spanish published from 2000 to Jul...
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The study had the purpose of testing training hours and learning strategies at work as predictors for leadership competencies among team managers. Leadership was defined as the process by which the manager and the team interact in an ethic way and influence each other to reach common goals. The participants were 377 managers of three federal govern...
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This study aimed to investigate the meaningfulness that Brazilian and French artists find in their work, considering the historic French cultural influence in the Brazilian creative industry. The specific objective was to cross-culturally validate a model of meaningfulness in work that was developed in French Canada and that includes five latent va...
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Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to propose a training and development (T&D) evaluation model that includes new societal indicators, considering the growing demand to do so. Three complementary studies were done. Study I used a framework for T&D evaluation that includes societal impact in it. Study II investigated which levels of T&D Brazilia...
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Na pesquisa aqui relatada, objetivou-se verificar a existência de relações preditivas entre as competências expressas por gerentes de agências bancárias, a percepção deles sobre o suporte organizacional, o número de horas dedicadas por eles a treinamentos e o desempenho das agências em que atuam. Valeu-se de questionários estruturados para coleta d...
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Na pesquisa aqui relatada, objetivou-se verificar a existência de relações preditivas entre as competências expressas por gerentes de agências bancárias, a percepção deles sobre o suporte organizacional, o número de horas dedicadas por eles a treinamentos e o desempenho das agências em que atuam. Valeu-se de questionários estruturados para coleta d...
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Evaluation of training programs has received special research attention. Testing a training effectiveness model with the trainee´s characteristics and work environment factors as predictors is the goal of the present study. A survey with 652 ex-trainees in a banking institution was conducted. The results show a model with a good fit. Effect sizes o...
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Evaluation of training programs has received special research attention. Testing a training effectiveness model with the trainee's characteristics and work environment factors as predictors is the goal of the present study. A survey with 652 ex-trainees in a banking institution was conducted. The results show a model with a good fit. Effect sizes o...
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This study aims to identify the predictor variables for three types of management competencies: financial business management, process management and socio-environmental management. It was hypothesized that attributes of bank managers (such as the learning strategies they use) and those of the branches where they work (such as organizational suppor...
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This study aims to identify the predictor variables for three types of management competencies: financial business management, process management and socio-environmental management. It was hypothesized that attributes of bank managers (such as the learning strategies they use) and those of the branches where they work (such as organizational suppor...
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Medidas de Avaliação Em Treinamento, Desenvolvimento e Educação - Ferramentas Para Gestão de Pessoas” vem preencher uma lacuna existente em uma era em que a promoção da aprendizagem contínua e do aprofundamento de competências é cada vez mais exigida pelas condições da dinâmica organizacional e do trabalho. Ao mesmo tempo em que os investimentos em...
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Evaluation of training programs has received special research attention. Testing a training effectiveness model with the trainee's characteristics and work environment factors as predictors is the goal of the present study. A survey with 652 ex-trainees in a banking institution was conducted. The results show a model with a good fit. Effect sizes o...
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The paper's purpose is to understand the identity representation construction processes and identity strategies used by artists in three cultural segments in the State of São Paulo. Two data-gathering strategies have been combined: a survey and in-depth interviews. A total of 92 artists accepted taking part in the study. The data were analyzed base...
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O objetivo deste estudo foi analisar o processo de avaliação da aprendizagem realizado em treinamentos ministrados à equipe de enfermagem, no que se refere à eficácia dos treinamentos e à validade dos instrumentos. Trata-se de um estudo empírico, cujos achados apoiarão formulações teóricas para a construção de uma metodologia de avaliação. A anális...
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El objetivo de este estudio fue analizar el proceso de evaluación de aprendizaje realizado en entrenamientos brindados al equipo de enfermería, en lo que se refiere a la eficiencia de los mismos y a la validez de los instrumentos. Se trata de un estudio empírico, cuyas conclusiones apoyarán formulaciones teóricas para la construcción de una metodol...
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A gestão por competências tem merecido crescente atenção por parte de profissionais e acadêmicos desde seu surgimento. Sobre o setor público, percebe-se uma lacuna no que diz respeito a estudos teóricos ou empíricos que se refiram aos níveis estadual e municipal, e, do mesmo modo, no que se refere a seu primeiro escalão. O presente artigo relata a...
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Competencies management has deserved increasing attention on the part of professionals and academics since it was proposed. In the public sector, a gap is perceived on theoretical or empirical studies concerning the state and municipal levels of the administration and also their decision level. This article describes the construction of an instrume...