Fatores de qualidade percebidos pelos discentes de cursos de administração de empresas : um estudo sobre as relações da causalidade atraves da modelagem de equações estruturais

Abstract

The present study defines the factors that influence the perception of quality for private superior education and analyzes the causality relation between each one of them and the quality. The factors had been identified based on the three dimensions of the marketing mix of services, being the People, the Process of production and delivery of the services and Tangible Aspects. Studies that turn on Brazilian superior education and on the quality of the services had also contributed as reference. To verify the adequacy of the considered model were used information collected from 388 academics of the Course of Administration in two private Institutions of Superior Education in the city of São Paulo. The statistics technique used was the Structural Equation Modeling. An adjustment process became fulfilled, through three methods of esteem, getting itself six endogenous constructs: Qualification of the Faculty, Attendance, Relationship between Learning, Main Tangible Aspects, Academic Environment and Relationship between Professor and Pupil. The causal relation between the endogenous constructs and exogenous construct defined as Quality was tested, presenting resulted that they had demonstrated the tack of the data you show for the considered causal model. The Academic Environment was the factor presented the strongest relation with the Quality, followed by the Attendance, Main Tangible Aspects, Relationship between Professor and Pupil, Qualification of the Teachers and Relationship between Students.