Tendência empreendedora: perfil dos acadêmicos do curso de administração da Universidade Federal da Fronteira Sul Campus Cerro Largo

Abstract

Following the increasing interest that has been evidenced at the entrepreneurship area, the present study aimed to analyze and compare the entrepreneurship trend among the Management academics from UFFS campus Cerro Largo, along with the specific objectives that includes indentifying the academics profile, comparing the entrepreneurship trend between the entrants and graduates and identifying the academics’ professional perspectives. As for the goal of the study, it is classified as descriptive, with a primary source database, a quantitative approach, as application tool, it was chosen a test known as General Measure of Enterprising Tendency (GET) by Caird, as statistic analysis method, the Student’s t-test and chi-square were utilized. As results, it was identified that the majority of academics analyzed were entrants, female, mostly aged between 18 to 25 years old. In average, the academics do not bear an entrepreneurial tendency, only achieving the aspired result at TEG test on the impulse/determination characteristic, the other characteristics: need of success, need of autonomy/independence, creative trend and inclination to risks were way far from the necessary results to considering the profiles as entrepreneurial. When compared, results do not affirm that graduate students possess higher entrepreneurial tendency concerning the entrants, thus, the entrepreneurial tendency has not relation with the variables semester, gender and age. It was identified as academics’ professional perspectives the preference for occupying a training position on a private company of any size, occupy a training position on a public institution, open and manage their own business and continue studies, highlighting the increase interest by entrants in opening and managing their own business.