The objective of this study was to identify and analyze the managerial competencies covered in menus disciplines of higher education courses of Business Management, that directly or indirectly contribute to the development of relevant skills to the manager who wants to take international assignments. It was selected a sample of 24 institutions of higher education, based on the following criteria: (1) results of National Performance of Students (Enade) and on-site evaluation conducted by the Ministry of Education and Culture (MEC); (2) courses included in a program called "Pró Administração", connected to Universidade Federal de Uberlândia. There was used classical content analysis, based on the descriptions of these courses, developed from parameters that were based on the results of survey among Brazilian managers working abroad (Sousa et al., 2010) and studies of Echeveste and others (1999) and McCall and Hollenbeck (2003). 1324 courses description have been evaluated, and in 622 (46.97% of the corpus) it was possible to identify adhesions to the proposed competencies. With greater frequency, were found: strategic vision, decision-making ability, capacity of correlation between events of importance to the company and ability to deal with different cultures.
Competences; Managerial competencies; Global manager; Course description; Business Administration course
