Corporate education as business unit – a case study

Resumen

This study presents the corporate education as a business unit within a large company of solutions in equipments and commercial automation services in Brazil. The objective is to present the corporate education as a profitable resource for organizations. The corporate education has been adopted throughout companies for leveling the knowledge, increasing competences, retaining talents, keeping the stakeholders updated. This work also shows that this practice of the knowledge management can become a business department. An interview and a questionnaire with the corporate education manager were used in this case study, besides the direct observation. The training and development department has been substituted by this business unit, which focus on spreading the knowledge all over the company’s employees, clients and suppliers, aligning the educational procedures with the enterprise strategies, responding for its costs of maintenance and presenting ways of covering those costs. Although it is in a beginning level, this unit of the company in study has achieved satisfactory results.