The profile of a manager in higher education institution in Latin America: the case of the EBAPE

• Ano de defesa: 2010
• Autor(a) principal: Avilés, Clarise Lacerda
• Orientador(a): Motta, Paulo Roberto
• Tipo de documento: Dissertação
• Tipo de acesso: Acesso aberto
• Idioma: eng
• Palavras-chave em Inglês: Education; Internationalization; Higher education; Culture; Organizational structure; Management
• Link de acesso: http://hdl.handle.net/10438/7973

The aim of this study is to analyze the profile of today’s manager, according to the classical management literature, working on internationalized higher education institute. This paper draws together knowledge about the manager’s profile in a corporate environment and how it can be appreciated in a higher education institute all of this taking into consideration the environment that nowadays exists in these institutions. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews, with professors of the Fundacao Getulio Vargas, more specific on their Public and Business Administration School (EBAPE), which had active roles on its development, internationalization and during some point in time their management. The findings obtained where analyzed under the perspective brought by the theoretical reference framework, and, based on this approach is represented the manager whom could have a better perspective to administrate a higher education institute.