Percepções sobre funções e competências do coordenador como gestor do curso de graduação em ciências contábeis oferecido por instituições privadas de ensino superior brasileiras

Abstract

his research had as objective to analyze the perceptions about functions and competences of the coordinator as manager of the undergraduate course in Accounting Sciences offered by private higher education institutions in Brazil. For this, a descriptive research with a quantitative approach was carried out. The data were collected through an online questionnaire with structured and "free" questions. Data analysis was performed using statistical methods and content analysis. It was verified that in the dimension of the competences the pedagogic one stands out being more expressive the "Knowledge of the curricular management and the articulation between its components and processes" with (4.37) and the administrative one, being less expressive the "Elaboration and control of the budget course" with (3.21). In the dimension of the functions, the most important is the institutional one, with the most expressive being the "Search for the success of the students in the National Exam of the course and in the tests of order" with (4.63), and the managerial one being less expressive the "Contractual students and the use of negotiation criteria" with (2.42). As for the factors that hinder the management of the course, the coordinators cite as the most expressive the centralized university management (20%); lack of time to manage the course (16%); the lack of training in academic management (10%). Already as factors that facilitates citation training for academic management (24%); the exercise of leadership (20%) and the. This seems to be the profile of a manager put into practice in order to meet the educational demands, which require, in addition to technical knowledge for the performance of bureaucratic functions, also cognitive and socioaffective capacities in the execution of complex tasks such as those of a political-pedagogical, administrative, institutional and relational. It can be concluded that the professional who acts as manager of the course in Accounting Sciences guides his actions in the search for the preparation of the egress to obtain professional success and, thus, the achievement of institutional success, based less on the knowledge of academic management and relational (attitudes) and more in the knowledge of the exercise of the profession (know - how).