Capacitação e competências: a contribuição do Instituto de Economia e Finanças do Exército na capacitação de gestores, na perspectiva dos seus dirigentes

Abstract

The Armed Forces are part of the Federal Public Administration; although its members have professional training far from the training of an administrator, a manager, they are subject to the same legislation as civil bodies, legal obligations and penalties, to the control exercised by the Federal Court of Accounts and the Comptroller General of the Union, by example, among other supervisory bodies. The Institute of Economics and Finance of the Army – IEFEx, is the institution destined to ensure that agents of the administration of the military organizations of the Army are previously trained when assuming administrative functions; carry out studies and diagnoses in the area of its competence, including, if necessary, with the participation of similar institutions, in the country and abroad, prospecting and identifying needs of the Brazilian Army in training in the area of management. In this context, the present work sought to answer the following research problem: what is the perception of the leaders of the Institute of Economics and Finance about the practices of corporate education, in the area of management, adopted by the Brazilian Army? Therefore, the research had as general objective to identify the perceptions of the leaders of the Institute of Economics and Finance of the Army about the practices of corporate education, in the area of management, adopted by the Brazilian Army. Additionally, it had the following specific objectives: to analyze how Corporate Education contributes to the development of skills needed in the management area of the Brazilian Army; understand how the Institute's leaders interpret the challenges of Corporate Education related to management and typically military activities; identify how IEFEx leaders perceive the Institute's performance and its contribution to the Army achieving its organizational objectives. Among the main results, it was possible to observe that the directors recognize the Institute's performance as relevant, with its Corporate Education, in the development of competences related to the training of military personnel in the area of economics and finance; it was also identified that operational activities (core activities of the Army) such as marches, graduations and training, for example, are complemented by administrative activities, in the daily life of military organizations; therefore, it is concluded that IEFEx's work in developing skills, which improves effectiveness and efficiency in the administrative area, contributes to maintaining operational capacity, as it requires a smaller number of military personnel in the administrative area, freeing up personnel for operational activities. It also verified the importance of a bank of talents that can help the dissemination of knowledge in the area of economics and finance.