Administração como ciência x empirismo na gestão uma análise da aplicação das funções do administrador em MPE´S.

Abstract

The companies operate in a constantly changing environment. Technological advancement has shortened distances, passing the competition exists global rather than local, generating the needs of organizations to seek new methods to achieve their goals. Therefore, the design of management as science is essential, leaving the scene aspect of empiricism, and in that vein, leaving it to managers lead this process of cognition. The aim of this study was to identify how managers MPE'S City Uiraúna - PB apply administrator functions in their companies. For this, we developed a field study, a descriptive and exploratory, quantitative approach according to predefined guidelines in order to facilitate the analysis of the data collected. We used a nonprobability sample of sixteen companies, retailers, affiliated to the CDL, in which a questionnaire was structured. It was found that managers have knowledge, though limited, the administrator functions, ranging to them the degree of importance of each function are managers with education at undergraduate and post without illiterate, but with training in different areas administration. Sees necessary to structure human resources, marketing, services and finance. The control factor is worrying, since virtually nonexistent control of HR, marketing and services, highlighting only the financial control, yet simplified form, not paying up the data to the correct decision. Ascertains that, among other things, that does not exist in any formal business planning and schedule, noting that empiricism is still part of reality management of these organizations.