Silva, Nuno Henrique Santos DaRamos, Casimiro Francisco2017-05-302017-05-302014ISSN 1647-1989http://hdl.handle.net/10437/7947Since 200 years ago the west has experienced the most drastic improvement in living standards in human history, recently marked by the fast development of globalization. However remains a latent fear of deprivation called status anxiety. In this context the aim of this paper is to characterize and correlate the status hierarchy and anxiety in the sector of information and communication technologies (ICT). With a consistency of a = 0,688, a confidence level of 95%, and a margin of error of 7,4%, it was found that ICT employees respondents are young men with higher education; they are ambitious, wish success and give importance to professional achievements; they covet prestige, honor and power and compare professional successes; for them compensation is as a result of that success, and don’t want to enrich that way; they would feel frustrated and humiliated if they were not successful, and they wish to move up in the status order of their workplace.application/pdfengopenAccessGESTÃOMANAGEMENTTECNOLOGIAS DA INFORMAÇÃO E COMUNICAÇÃOINFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIESarticle