Avaliação das necessidades de formação dos gestores dos distritos municipais da cidade de Maputo

Abstract

This study presents a contribution to improve the performance of the managers of the Municipal Districts of the Autonomous City of Maputo. To this end, it seeks to identify the role and the importance of training in relation to the good performance of managers, through the process of assessing and characterizing training needs dictated by their own work experience, with a view to delineating a more appropriate approach to training. their training. In order to operationalize these objectives, research questions were formulated that refer, respectively, to the recognition of the specific work content of the managers; their respective competences for the good performance in the exercise of the function, considering also the specific training needs. In order to achieve the intended objectives, the study also used a multi-methodological strategy, based on triangulation, given the qualitative nature of the research and its exploratory character. The main result of the study points to the fact that despite the importance of training in the process of municipal development, its impact has to be seen in a holistic perspective, which takes into account other competing factors for the good performance of the institutions and their managers. To this end, the main recommendations focus on the need to define the specific professional profiles of the municipal management functions at the level of the district units of the Maputo Autarchy and on the optimization of the potential of the city's educational infrastructures to extend training activities to managers and themselves citizens (TRADUÇÃO NOSSA)