Resumo

IGLESIAS REYES, Emilio Arnoldo  e  CHANG LOPEZ, Roberto Enrique. Perceptions of important competencies in Business Administration degrees in Eastern El Salvador. RIDE. Rev. Iberoam. Investig. Desarro. Educ [online]. 2021, vol.11, n.22, e04.  Epub 21-Maio-2021. ISSN 2007-7467.  https://doi.org/10.23913/ride.v11i22.824.

The world of work has been undergoing changes due to globalization and technological development, requiring professionals to be interconnected and interdependent. In addition, the Covid-19 pandemic has emphasized those competences related to the use of virtual platforms for work in non-face to face work or remote work. The objective of this research is to propose a methodology that allows evaluating the relevance of curriculum of the Business Administration degree and the congruence of the competences that graduates acquire with respect to the perceptions of interest groups in eastern El Salvador. This investigation employs a positivist epistemology and quantitative methods, adapting a questionnaire used by the Tuning Latin America, to survey graduates, teachers, and business sector professionals to determine the importance they assign to generic competencies to generate employability or entrepreneurship capacity in graduates. The questionnaire used was tested to determine if its design allowed an acceptable level of reliability to collect the data that would be statistically processed and obtain the information to corroborate the research hypotheses.

The results demonstrate high reliability and validity with the Cronbach's Alpha and KMO statistics of the proposed methodology. The null hypothesis is not rejected, which means that the curriculum of the Bachelor of Administration are aligned according to the perceptions of employers, teachers and graduates. In conclusion, the proposed methodology can serve as a reference to carry out similar studies in different contexts with parametric and non-parametric tests to adapt the curriculum of university careers with their respective business environments, which are increasingly dynamic and demanding.

Palavras-chave : generic competencies; higher education; employability; relevance.