Management skills: the expectation of business students of UEMA, their managers and peers in Vale SA in Sao Luis - MA

Abstract

Technological advances summed up with globalization have contributed for organizational competitiveness/complexity. The survival of business in this scenario is related to the creation and development of resources and assets which give them competitiveness. Individuals competence has become the focus of this study whose central objective focus on congruence or otherwise between the skills acquired by students of the Center for Social Sciences at the State University of Maranhão - according to the subjects chosen in the Administrator's academic training space, students and administrators, and skills required by private sector managers’ in Sao Luis - MA, in the VALE company as well. The methodology has articulated qualitative research methods. The theoretical framework drew on expertise of several authors’ design. The results showed as the most cited competence elements, knowledge, skills, attitudes, capacity and the preference on Queiroz’s competence version (2008) was the most accepted. Was the congruence base found among students and managers at UEMA and Vale. The enterprise distinction on analytical capacity for candidates’ selection, reports to student’s dissatisfaction about teaching methods. Trainees’ step deserves better dialogue between both organizations. Future studies can deepen questions as students’ satisfaction, teaching at UEMA, academic and work performance.