Perfil empreendedor dos alunos concluintes do curso de administração de uma Instituição de Ensino Superior Privada: Contribuições para o aprimoramento do Projeto Pedagógico de Curso

Abstract

The purpose of this study was to analyze the entrepreneurial profile of students graduating in the Business Administration course of a Private Institution of Higher Education for identifying the need to improve the Pedagogical Project of the Course and consequent actions of its faculty in the formation of entrepreneurial students. The research has as methodological support the quali-quantitative or mixed approach, characterized as a descriptive exploratory study. For quantitative data collection, were utilized a questionnaire and a test of entrepreneurial tendency (TED), and for qualitative data collection, a semi-structured interview and document analysis. .The questionnaire and the test were applied to 30 students graduating in Business administration and an interview was conducted with six of these students and another with three professors of the course. The application of the test of entrepreneurial tendency revealed that the students were classified near the expected parameter in the dimensions need for achievement and tendency to have autonomy and independence , below the parameter in the dimensions tendency to take risk and creative tendency and only above the parameter in the dimension tendency to tale initiative and determination . Through the document analysis of the Administration Course, only brief mentions related to the entrepreneurial formation of students were found in the general objective of the course and in the professiographic profile of the graduating, and the presence of a discipline about Entrepreneurship and New Business Creation in the curriculum program. The professors interviewed, in an isolated attitude, informed that they promote discussions about the subject, but this is not a standard procedure, because it is not a systematized practice established in the course pedagogical project, in the teaching plans and in the teaching plans. The students interviewed manifested expectation related to the formation focused on entrepreneurship, but did not perceive specific instruments in the course destined to the development of entrepreneurial characteristics, neither an integrating effort of the disciplines for awakening and stimulating them to initiate their own business. It was concluded that the structure of the course under analysis should be reevaluated with the purpose of promoting interdisciplinarity and increasing the content of courses directly related to the subject in order to provide students the development of the needed entrepreneurial skills for increasing their success chance in undertaking their own business.