Imagem social do gestor: um estudo de representações sociais e competências

Abstract

The constant search for improving the quality of professionals in organizations brings a growing concern with the employees’ development, becoming a strategic component for organizations that want to ensure space in a globalized world that is in process of constant change. Thus, this work aims to develop and validate a different methodology, however, appropriate to business needs, regarding what is aimed in the field of evaluation of the managers, whose aim is to improve the organizational processes, but above all of the involved managers. The dimensions explored in this research will provide the leaders of the organizations a more structured analysis of the contributions of their managers, so that in this way they are able to support the decisions of organizations, which are interested in skills development and enhancement of the company's talents. The nature of the research is exploratory, looking for filling the existing gap in the management tools used by companies, through the production of a tool based on the social image of the manager. Such tool can be applied in the organizational context, adding something innovative in the world of reviews, and providing managers a more structured analysis of their contributions in order to support its decisions related to training and skills development