O outplacement em Portugal: vivências e experiências

Abstract

In this article, outplacement is addressed as a recent human resource policy associated to the context of intense and fast change that is characteristic of the business world today. We offer a theoretical and empirical reflection on outplacement models and practices and analyze the lived experiences of people who underwent such processes of employment and/or career transition when they found themselves unwillingly removed from their jobs. The qualitative and exploratory methodological approach we used shows the advantages of outplacement measures promoted by the companies for the employees who were dismissed. Such advantages are notorious in the access to the labour market and from the social-psychological and relational points.