As competências do administrador em uma perspectiva de desenvolvimento sustentável: percepções de formandos dos Cursos de Administração de Instituições de Ensino Superior, no município de Santa Rosa - RS

Abstract

The development is related with a proposta of a better quality of life to the next and the current generation. Corresponding the importance of treating the development from the aspects that turn inclusive, sustainable and sustained, or it be, by the consideration of social, ambiental, territorial, economic and political dimensions. The graduated professional by the Management Course is relevant in this context, once that manages organizational environments, whose impact the development of the locations is perceptive. For that, is fundamental that the Management Course labor the capture of the competences that turn the administrator effective agents at the reach the development including, sustainable and sustained. However the knowledge approached at the Management Courses lean to the characteristics of one or other type of rationalities, in this case, distinguish in instrumental and substantive rationality. In view of that, the objective of this study is to comprehend how the rationality in the perception of the graduates of the presencial modality Management Courses's perception of the Santa Rosa/RS's colleges about the professional skills of the Manager in a perspective of sustainable development. The research is characterized for a interpretative phenomenological approach, been classified as qualitative, descriptive, bibliographic and in field research. The data refinement was conducted by the analysis technique of the content, which sought to evidence through the analysis of the perceptions of management graduates, the necessary subsidies to meet the general and specific objectives of the research. The research results show that of the total of eight of the professional competencies of the administrator obtained the predominance of instrumental rationality in five professional competencies, while the professional competencies "Logical, critical and analytical reasoning" and "Initiative, creativity, determination and political and administrative will" present the predominance of both rationalities. Only the professional competence "Transfer of knowledge" had a predominance of substantive rationality. And from a sustainable development perspective, the study identified the predominance of instrumental rationality in the economic dimension, while in the social dimension, characteristics of substantive rationality prevailed. In the environmental dimension there were correlations of both rationalities in the perception of the interviewees. In the territorial and political dimensions, there was an inconclusive analysis in parts of the results, results that identify opportunities and advances in the training process of new professionals in the area of administration. Finally, from a sustainable development perspective, it is important to emphasize that both forms of rationality can coexist in the scenario of contemporary organizations.