O impacto do estilo de mobilização do gestor na produtividade de equipes de venda

Abstract

This work has sought to identify the relationship between management's mobilization styles and the productivity of the sales force in a pharmaceutical company. Sales Managers from large pharmaceutical companies were studied. The individual mobilization style of each manager was identified through the M.A.R.E.® Motivational Guidelines and afterwards correlated to the marks given for productivity to his/her team as supplied by their individual companies, in order to identify the existing relationship between the results of the teams and the mobilization style of each of their leaders. It was noticed during the study that there was a great difference in behavior as regards the challenges faced by the team members on a day-to-day basis and how much the human factor was responsible for the results obtained. In order to adequately reflect on the leadership theme, this study was based on authors such as Bass, Bennis, Burns, Machiavelli, Nannus and Spector. As regards the motivational aspects, the authors chosen for reflection were Alderfer, Herzberg, Maslow, McClelland, McGregor, Mitchel, Sinha, Vroom, Zoltners and Zoltners. The Mobilization Styles identified were based on contributions made by Coda and Ricco as well as studies carried out by Erich Fromm. The use of performance indicators has facilitated the identification of the results of each team for comparison to the Mobilization Styles. This factor determines the importance of the use of standard criteria so as to have an appropriate measurement of the people evaluated as well as give fairness to the process and guarantee credibility in the system to those involved. The study shows that certain mobilization styles are associated to favorable sales results, whereas other styles are not as favorable to a better performance of the teams. The study associates better productivity to the Competitive style and demonstrates that the Collaborative style is not conducive to adequate results for the sales teams of pharmaceutical products. The results obtained suggest towards a continuity of this study, initially in institutions working in the same field as the one studied here, so as to verify the data identified. Afterwards, attempting to corroborate the relationship between Managers and Mobilization Styles in the sales areas of companies in other segments, and finally searching for this relationship in other areas of the company.