Skills required in Family Business Management: a feminine look

• Autor(a) principal: Brito, Lydia Maria Pinto
• Data de Publicação: 2012
• Outros Autores: Pinto Leone, Nilda Maria de Clodoaldo Guerra
• Tipo de documento: Artigo
• Idioma: por
• Título da fonte: Revista de Ciências da Administração
• Texto Completo: https://periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/adm/article/view/2175-8077.2012v14n32p50

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.5007/2175-8077.2012v14n32p50The objective of the study is to identify the profile of competency perceived by the managers of familiar companies. The referential is based on studies on women in the command of familiar companies and competency management. The research was exploratory and quantitative with an accessibility sample of commercial familiar companies in Natal-RN. The instrument of data collection was a questionnaire. The results indicate a categorization of the managers, for the majority (43.40%) of proprietors, as the following socioeconomic profile: 2nd degree, age between 36 and 49 years,married with 2 or 3 children. In the knowledge dimension, the results confirmed the disposal for the knowledge search. In ability dimension, we identified the necessity to improve the capacity to criticize and to synthesize data and information about processes and people in the way to the decision making. In the attitude dimension, the managers´ perception related to the ethics pointed out great emphasis in the direction of the respect for the other, honesty and justice in the decisions.