Capturando la cultura: tres aportes de la antropología a la selección de personal

• Autores: Morales Inga, Sergio, Morales Tristán, Oswaldo
• Formato: artículo
• Fecha de Publicación: 2018
• Institución: Universidad ESAN
• Repositorio: ESAN-Institucional
• Lenguaje: español
• OAI Identifier: oai:repositorio.esan.edu.pe:20.500.12640/3395
• Enlace del recurso: https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12640/3395
• Nivel de acceso: acceso abierto
• Materia: Personnel selection; Culture; Organizational anthropology; Participant observation; Ethnography; Ethnographic interview; Selección de personal; Cultura; Antropología organizacional; Observación participante; Etnografía; Entrevista etnográfica; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.02.04; https://purl.org/pe-repo/ocde/ford#5.04.03

Ideally, the purpose of a personnel selection process is to find the best candidate for a job through correspondence between their labor competencies and the culture of the organization (cultural fit). For this, many evaluators analyze the personality of the applicants using psychological techniques, competency-based interviews, among other tools. However, despite referring to it, this approach neglects an important element of the equation: culture. From an anthropological perspective, culture not only defines the nature of a nation or an organization, but also another main component for personnel selection: labor competencies. Considering the available evidence, this research presents three contributions that organizational anthropology can provide to personnel selection so that it is capable of capturing the culture to which it appeals: participant observation, ethnography and ethnographic interview. Finally, the research concludes that promoting an anthropological approach in personnel selection could palliate some of the problems indicated in the literature.