Management Styles of Small Business Managers: Study Based on the Organizational Life Cycle

• Autor(a) principal: Almeida, Ivonez Xavier de
• Data de Publicação: 2018
• Outros Autores: Wernke, Rodney
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Empreendedorismo e Gestão de Pequenas Empresas - REGEPE
• Texto Completo: https://www.regepe.org.br/regepe/article/view/737
• topic: Management Style; Organizational Life Cycle; Small Business; Estilo Gerencial; Ciclo de Vida Organizacional; Pequenas Empresas.

The objective of this paper was to identify the managerial styles of the leaders of small companies according to the life cycle of these organizations. The research is considered applied, descriptive, quantitative and used the survey procedure. The sample comprised 45 small firms (15.35% of the 232 firms that were part of the regional business association concerned), employing up to 50 employees. In relation to the life cycle, 10 companies were classified in stage 1 (Establishment), 16 in stage 2 (Direction) and 19 in stage 3 (Consolidation). As for the activities, distributed in functions and roles, the most valued regarding the process approach were those of "planner" and "controller" in the three stages mentioned. For the roles, the most valued activities were those of "resource allocator", "monitor" and "entrepreneur" (in stage 1) and for stages 2 and 3 were "leader", "contact" and "monitor". The factors analysis indicated four groups of styles (orientation, direction, public relations and disturbance solver). The main contribution of this study was the generation of subsidies for higher education institutions and business entities in the research focus region to develop policies for training managers in a more customized way, including managers with training in areas other than administrative. Regarding the limitations associated with the study, they are related to the diversity of companies and the size of the sample used.