As implicações da liderança transformacional no perfil de liderança e no comprometimento organizacional de estudantes de administração: estudo de caso em uma instituição pública de ensino superior

Abstract

The transformational leadership represents a superior level of goals sharing between an organization and your members. In higher education, the development of leadership transcend the learning of management competencies, should cover the students training as agents effective of social changes. In this way, the literature highlights that for administrators in formation the most important thing is the environment where the leadership is cultivated and shared. Therefore, the goal of this research is analyze how the exercise of transformational leadership can influence in the leadership profile and in the organizational commitment of the management students with the Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC). For that, the literature review approached: 1) the theory and the research of leadership, under the perspective of the Transformational Leadership in higher education; 2) the social exchange process in light of the leadership and organizational commitment in the educational domain; and 3) the theory and the research in organizational commitment in the work place and your relation with higher education. The research of this work had a nature exploratory, quantitative and qualitative. There was applied 100 questionnaires with the management students of FEAAC and, after that, the interview were realized with 5 other students. The data collected in the questionnaires, were analyzed as defined by Bass and Avolio in (MLQ-6S). About the interviews, the data were analyzed according to content analysis, as defined by Bardin (1977). The results showed an increasing tendency of the academic leadership influence in the formation and the students perception in relation to themselves and to the course. From this, the objectives of the research were confirmed: the students repeat the good behaviors of the teachers as a means to reach better results. This is reflected, therefore, in their leadership profile and organizational commitment.