Investimentos em educação do capital humano na empresa Fras-le, indústria metal mecânica, sob a ótica dos funcionários e dos gestores

Abstract

In the present research the contribution of the investiments in education in the Human Being Capital to reach the competitive advantages, at Fras-le a friction materials manufacturer a metallurgical industry, located in Caxias do Sul RS was examined. This study is supported by three theoretical approaches: Knowledge; Intellectual Capital; Human Being Capital. The conjugation of these three theoretical perspectives assists in the understanding of the dynamic process of the contribution of the investiments in education in the Human Being Capital. This research was developed in four phases: first stage: secondary data-collecting from the company archives, second stage: questionnaire application to all employees benefited with the program of education from the organization; third stage: interviews half-structuralized next to the leaderships of the company; fourth stage: data analysis gotten in the previous phases through descriptive statistics, in function to specific objectives and content analysis. The obtained results showed the perceptions from employees and the leaderships about how much investment in education is made by the company, the relationship between education investment and competitive advantages, verification of dissemination and application from the acquired knowledge, as well as the verification of the education impacts in the intellectual capital.