Estudo da liderança em embarcações de guerra e a contribuição de suas práticas para as organizações

Abstract

Over the years, a lot of practices adopted by military organizations had called the attention of many management experts and created a huge number of important concepts and ideas regarding company administration. However, the biggest part of administration studies made on military organizations are not interested on human management subjects, and, therefore, the administration studious waste an important source of good practices that could provide valuable lessons to the managers. Between the many important topics involving human management, leadership is considered a special subject, which uses to draw people’s attention and curiosity since the dawn of humanity. The present work aims to analyze a particular case, where the simple switch of captain (leader) totally changed the ship’s performance, pushing the worst vessel on the squad to the top of the fleet, keeping the same crew members and technology available. That research intends to analyze this vessel as an organization, considering her strengths, weaknesses, threats, opportunities, and all other factors which can be observed in land organizations.