A percepção de gestores de universidades corporativas da cidade de São Paulo sobre a formação em controladoria como competência para o alinhamento do perfil dos gestores às estratégias das organizações

Abstract

The professional development in the era of knowledge economy is responsible for making people rethink the department of development and training, so as to give room for the Corporate Universities (CU), which aims to offer continuous education. One of the most relevant functions of the CUs is to promote the alignment between companies strategies and their managers´ profiles. Therefore, the aim of this work was to identify and analyze the managers´ perceptions, who work in São Paulo city, concerning the importance of the controllership in the alignment between the companies strategies and their managers´ profiles. Firstly, it was used a bibliographic study, showing that there is a consensus about the importance of the CUs in the continuous formation of managers and other people from the companies staff. Secondly, it was realized a descriptive investigation of qualitative nature, based on an interview protocol, applied to managers and consultants who work in three CUs in São Paulo city. The collected information was analyzed by means of content analysis. The obtained results confirmed what was found in the literature: it demonstrates that the CUs can contribute with the improvement of managers abilities concerning the knowledge in controllership, so as to diminish the gap between university courses offered by universities. So, this work contributes with a sugestion by the main office´s managers in controllership.