Managerial key competencies from students´ point of view

Abstract

Faculty of Economics and Management of the Slovak University of Agriculture in Nitra (FEM SUA) in the Slovak Republic provides the students with complex study for granting managerial – economic skills necessary for practice. The aim of the paper is to analyze key competencies of managers in practice and teachers, as managers of the teaching process, from students ́ point of view at FEM SUA in Nitra. For better employment of the FEM SUA graduates in practice the key competencies of managers have a huge significance, and their identification is inevitable for them to become successful managers in companies throughout Slovakia and the world in the future. A part of the paper is the questionnaire survey focused on findings of key competencies of managers and teachers as a manager of the teaching process (defined according to Belz & Siegrist) from students ́ point of view that are assessed as the most important within employment in practice by the FEM SUA students. From results follows that up to 72% of respondents consider ability of manager to solve problems and creativity as the most important key competence of manager. Another result of the research is that up to 82% of respondents chose the sense of justice as the most important key competence of the teacher as a manager of the teaching process.