Estilos de mobilização, competências profissionais percebidas e opções de áreas de atuação de futuros administradores: um estudo exploratório

Abstract

This research aims at analyse the main characteristics of 380 students, whose 63% belong to male gender and are regular undergraduated students in Business Administration courses from two universities in São Paulo - SP. The methodology procedures adopted to carry out such investigation consisted of two research tools: one aiming at the identification of seven Mobilization Stiles - MS, proposed by Ricco (2004) and another one named as "interests questionary", composed by 6 Performing Area Options (PAO), in order to identify the first option and 31 chosen competences that were adapted from McClelland e Klemp Jr. to choose 5 among them, so as to obtain the Perceived Professional Competences (PPC) of the studied subjects. An adherence and significance Qui-Squared Test method applied to statistic analysis, to gather data, understand information and final results analysis. The main results of this study reveal that 22.6$ of students are from Mobilization Style (MS), while Conquerer lies with 66% from Perceived Professional Competences (PPC) and are concentrated in 15 of them, besides the relations of MS and PPC being confirmed. In the sequence of the interpretations, among the Performing Areas Options (PAO), the students got 36.1% in their preferences for Finances, followed by 33.9% who preferred Marketing area. The study shows also that Conquerer Style is concentrated in 27.7% in the ones who prefer Finances area and 17.8% for the ones who prefer Marketing. As a sequence for academic purposes, it would be interesting to apply such study in other universities in São Paulo, so as to have a better overview and actual explanation of the facts presented in this Master's program research.