Análise do perfil empreendedor dos concludentes em Administração da UFC e da UNIFOR

Abstract

Entrepreneurial skills are indispensable to the demands of the current job market. Thus, higher education institutions (HEI) and, especially, the administration courses should seek to develop them to strengthen the entrepreneurial profile of their students. It universities prepare students for the new challenges of the labor market, since not always, this is able to cover these professionals offering employment. The objective of this study is to identify possible differences in the profile of the entrepreneur conclusive course of two higher educational institutions of Directors (UFC and UNIFOR), seeking to assess whether they are contributing to the strengthening of such a profile. Therefore, it was necessary to analyze socioeconomic and behavioral aspects of students nearing completion of their course of education institutions, using as theoretical basis the research developed by David McClelland (1972), on the Behavioral Characteristics Entrepreneurs. Characterized as a quantitative and qualitative research, descriptive, this case study used a sample of 50 students, 25 students from each institution, which answered a sociodemographic questionnaire next to the McClelland questionnaire. Information also were raised through structured interviews with the coordinators of HEI object of this study. We conclude, based on the entrepreneurial behavioral characteristics, that students have entrepreneurial above average proposed by McClelland and that there are no major differences between the profiles of the students from UFC and UNIFOR.