Competências essenciais nas redes colaborativas em instituições de ensino superior comunitário no RS : caso COMUNG

Abstract

The individual and collective growth is increasingly present in the institutions with be to cope with that, people within the field of work in which they are inserted must adapt in order to progressively reach the defined goals. It is from this idea that the theories of competences help to improve in the practical part of the institutions. The competences are considered the ways and acts in which the human being manages to make the transfer of knowledge with added value for other people or organizations. These competences within organizations are necessary for companies that wish to participate in a collaborative network, since it is through competences that networks can maintain themselves, because organizations need to cooperate with each other with their best skills to reach the established objectives for them. It is through the concepts of skills and collaborative networks that this work develops in a Consortium of Institutions of Higher Education Community in RS - COMUNG, of which 15 community institutions are part. This work has the general goal of identifying and analyzing the areas and the essential competences of IES participating in COMUNG to contribute to improvements in the collaborative network. For the development of this case study, theoretical revision was made through printed and digital books, dissertations and theses, from the IES website and documents. For the empirical research, the questionnaires were applied, having a return of ten universities. As a result, it was verified that the areas that have the greatest competence within the collaborative network, which is COMUNG, are: university management, people management, education management, image/products/services, political management, financial management, physical structure and internationalization, community and regionality where universities are inserted. In the collaborative networks dimension, 100% of the respondents believe that there were improvements after the participation of the IES in the network but also 40% believe that without the network they would have been able to reach the goals set by them. On the other hand, 60% mentioned that they would not have been able to achieve the same goals that they jointly achieved. In the last dimension, which is the consortium, the respondents mentioned that there were only benefits for being part of the consortium, namely: greater representativeness, exchange of experiences between representatives of COMUNG, university management, as well as their image/products/services were beneficiaries. Yet people management, structure and quality of education were positively affected. Universities believe that there is not much control over the benefits and most cites that are made through meetings, networks, social, institutional emails, punctual actions, events, among others; but what is also noticed is that there are institutions that have no idea how this is done and if it is done. Still, the representatives believe that they should create a methodology to control and evaluate these benefits and the results obtained after the construction of the consortium because these assessments are not made today or, as previously mentioned, they are carried out by university management, through e-mails and the number of meetings that they make throughout the year, the events they produce, the size of the internationalization they have, because they believe that this should also be of greater importance, as well as the image/product/services of the university. In order to arrive at these conclusions, the interpretation and analysis of the results was done after applying the questionnaire, together with the theoretical basis of competences and collaborative networks, the applicability of the questionnaires in Atlas IT Software. As contributions of the study, it was verified the importance of strengthening the collaborative network; give greater importance to the continuity of the network; create a fixed network of the network; use the network to purchase products at a lower cost; promote events with COMUNG participating universities; discuss all topics for the aggrandizement of the network, not just some, avoiding others; seek, through national and international events, to improve universities, as well as their work for students, staff and teachers; use the network to achieve new achievements; create a system for controlling benefits and evaluating results; and to develop, on a larger scale, internationalization.