A FORMAÇÃO DO ADMINISTRADOR E O MODO DE PENSAR ADMINISTRATIVO

Abstract

The present work deals with the formation of the Administrator and has as focus the ways to think and to act imbibed in the course administration of graduation of the UCG (University Catholic of Goias). The inquiry proposal was directed for the following investigations: which are the proper ways to think of the Administrator and the developed capacities and abilities about the forma tion process about the graduation course? Which are the cultural elements and social interactions gifts in the context of the graduation course that are determinative for the formation in the proper ways to think of the Administrator? These questions had guided the development of the research supported in the description-cultural Theory of the Activity. The works of Vygotsky, recognized as precursory of this theory, its collaborators Luria and Leontiev, continuators as Elkonin, Galperin and Davidov, had been basic in the search of a way to understand these questions better. It was opted to more pertinent the qualitative research for being considered when one is about the understanding of the educational phenomena. A case study was developed that had as locus the course of Administration of the University Catholic of Goias. The collection of data was carried through in the period of August of 2005 the December of 2005. The data had been gotten by means of documentary research, comments of situations of the academic context of the course, deeds of division (lessons, meetings, seminaries) and informal (dialogues in the room of the professors, in the corridors and others); interviews half-structuralized with pupils; interviews with professors, coordinator and director of the course. The analysis of the gotten material disclosed traces particular of the formation of the administrator, who contains in its nuclei one definitive type of rationality characterizing the way to think of the administrator: "to think rationally in favor of the organizations", "to think as the owner of the company", "to think of sistemical and contingencial form" and "to know to deal with people".