Management competences: A student view from the Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Ecuador

The dynamism of the labor market requires professionals with skills that promote business economic progress, leading to a permanent review of it, therefore, it is appropriate to determine the management skills acquired by commercial engineering students in their academic training at the Pontifical Catholic University. of Ecuador, Ambato headquarters in the Republic of Ecuador. An integration of the managerial competencies presented by Pérez (1997) and Rosales (1977), among others, was used to address technical/procedural, human/attitudinal and conceptual or cognitive skills. A descriptive and field type of research was used. The population was made up of university students of commercial engineering and, due to having access to all the informant agents, a population census was used, to whom a structured questionnaire with a Likert scale was applied. The results showed a positive trend of managerial skills in students. It is concluded that the students possess in general terms the three skills in the managerial competencies investigated: Strategic vision, systemic perspective, leadership, entrepreneurship, administrative programs and/or systems, teamwork, decision-making and innovation and in some of them they want deepen their knowledge, giving them a distinctive character, which in the Ecuadorian labor market can be conceived as competitive.