Capital social e o desenvolvimento das competências coletivas : um estudo de caso em duas empresas metalúrgicas

Abstract

The theme was developed through a gap related to competences, which is stressed, in this study, according to the organization and individual, aiming to understand and analyze the relationship between social capital and collective competences development, in order to understand how the contextual characteristics of social capital can facilitate the consolidation of these competences. The central proposal of this dissertation is a qualitative research through comparative analysis of two metallurgical companies according two criteria: competence management program; formal processes of teamwork. In order to draw a comparison between the two companies, the first company meets the two criteria instead the second company does not meet any of the two criteria. Within the methodological procedures available, was selected the qualitative research with case study strategy and data method collection involving semi-structured interviews, non-participant observation and secondary data analysis. In parallel, proceeded the encoding of interviews collected information’s with the software QSR Nvivo version 7.0. It was hoped that the company who meets the two criteria could have better perform about the creation of social capital and collective competences development. However, the results show that both companies presents contextual characteristics of social capital that facilitate the consolidation of the collective competences. The reasons for these facts can be explained by the strong identity of the analyzed teamwork’s, especially in relation to the organizational environment, daily routines and shares norms and values.