Contribuições do Núcleo de Estudos e Pesquisas em Secretariado Executivo para o desempenho em atividades de assessoria intelectual

Abstract

The organizational scenario calls for professionals with well-developed intellectual skills that know how to exploit their cognitive capabilities, in addition to behavioral and technical. Higher education, in turn, has been challenged to provide comprehensive training to students in order to develop this diversity of skills. For this, the Higher Education Institutions, Universities in particular, has the mission to create opportunities beyond teaching in the classroom, activities that students can engage with the research and extension, so that the set has a comprehensive training. Faced with this challenge, the course of the Executive Secretariat of the Federal University of Ceará, maintains the Center of Studies and Research Executive Secretariat (NEPES) since 2009, with a set of activities teaching, research and extension for the students of the course and, especially those who choose to be scholarship holders. Parallel to this context, the Executive Secretariat currently experiencing a period of discussion about its scientific identity. Among the authors who collaborate in this discussion, Nonato Júnior (2009) focuses on the study of Consultantship, proposing the subdivision: operational consultantship, business consultantship, intellectual consultantship and open consultantship. This research has as its focus the study of intellectual consultantship with regard to the activity of consultantship in the preparation, strategy and execution of intellectual activities (NONATO JÚNIO, 2009), it visualizes its applicability in the proposed NEPES (methodology, activities, objectives). For this, we carried out a literature review on the subject, which is based on the authors Nonato Júnior (2009) and Oliveira (2011), and a case study in NEPES. The research is characterized as descriptive and exploratory, with qualitative approach, and as instruments for data collection in this case study: interview, questionnaire and observation with the Program Coordinator and the student members. The study allows us to infer that contributes NEPES offering a comprehensive approach to academic training, where foster research and scientific studies, productions and publications of scientific work, achievements in academic events, develops training, finally, in the group are held, parallel to teaching, activities of research and extension. Thus, the students members receive training to develop studies and practice in Intellectual Consultantship.