A aprendizagem organizacional e formação de gestores: como aprendem os gestores das indústrias

Abstract

In today's business context, the environment is permeated with systematic changes increasingly fast and global, due to technological advancement and open markets. This study aims to examine the importance of the organizational learning as a competitive differential in training of managers, identified by organizations as key elements in the management of the production process that will ensure organizational growth and business excellence in a sustainable manner. This study aimed to identify the modes of organizational learning that helps most the formation of management skills in this type of market. To understand the object of study, was used multivariate quantitative methods, with the inclusion of exploratory factor analysis and multivariate regression approved in two scale measures known as Scale Methods in Learning - EMA and Range Management Skills - EHAG. As a result, it was found that in the surveyed industries the process of management training occurs mainly from formal learning approach, which means the traditional methods of training and access to databases. Another important issue identified in this research was the low frequency of cognitive modes and social relations, especially communities of practice during the learning process of managers in organizations surveyed, although in many organizational culture it helps the emergence of these social structures.