Correlação entre investimentos internos em qualificação e educação e o desempenho econômico-financeiro empresarial

Abstract

The current thesis has searched for a relation between investments in professional qualification and continuing education of the employees. For that, there were collected qualitative data trough interviews with companies’ managers of Santa Maria-RS, and quantitative data, on the Ranking of the Biggest Companies of Brazil, made by Exame magazine in the year 2013, with the purpose of reunite enough information to prove the existence of a correlation between the economic and performance variables of the organizations. The utilized methodology was defined about its objective as descriptive, besides in relation to the adopted technical process it was characterized as exploratory, and finally the collecting data method was defined as ex-post-facto. The interviews’ answers were transcript and analyzed within the purposed context, while the collected data from the financial and social reports were selected and computed into an electronic spreadsheet, so afterwards there were calculated the correlations rates between the desirable variables. Thus, with all data organized and possessing the results, there was elaborated the analysis and interpretation of them, which indicated that although there was a reduction of the incomes and profits, it has occurred an increase on the inner investments in professional qualification and continuing education, resulting in a strong correlation between the economic and performance variables at the beginning of the cycle and in a moderated at the end.