ESTILOS DE LIDERANÇA NA GESTÃO DE PROPRIEDADES RURAIS PRODUTORAS DE CAFÉ EM BOA ESPERANÇA - MG

Abstract

The objective of this work was to investigate, among the leadership styles, if there is a predominance between the leadership styles adopted by coffee producers in the city of Boa Esperança - MG, in addition to verifying whether male and female coffee growers adopt the same styles of leadership. Specifically, three leadership styles were investigated among producers in the municipality in question, including: Transformational, Transactional and Laissez-faire Leadership Style. For this, an exploratory and descriptive research with a quantitative and qualitative approach was carried out. Regarding the quantitative part, a sample of 173 questionnaires was obtained and with regard to the qualitative part, 15 interviews were carried out. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews and questionnaires. The organization, processing and analysis of the data were carried out with the help of the Sphinx, IRaMuTeQ and ATLAS.ti 8 software. In the quantitative part, the questions adapted from the Multifactorial Leardership Questionarie (MLQ) were separated according to Transformational, Transactional and Laissez- faire and the average of the averages of the three styles of leadership was performed, which allowed us to identify that the style and Laissez-faire was the one that was less present in the daily life of coffee producers, while the Transactional and Transformational obtained averages with values close to With Regarding gender, no significant difference was found between the leadership styles adopted by men and women, as between family and non-family producers, it was identified that the transformational style tends to be used more frequently by non-family producers. In the qualitative part, the transcription material of the interviews was worked on in IRaMuTeQ, the tool generated 5 classes that were divided into 2 main branches, subcorpus A (values), containing only class 5 (Values of a leader), followed by the subcorpus B (behaviors), composed of classes 1 (Decision making), 2 (Control), 3 (What isto be a leader) and 4 (Orientation). Next, he used the ATLAS.ti® software, where codes were created based on the classes generated by IRaMuTeQ® and, in the sequence, the text fragments corresponding to each code were related. After analyzing and interpreting the interviews, the results show that there is a strong presence of transformational and transactional styles among the interviewed producers, sometimes a certain style stands out and, at other times, they complement each other.