Emotional competences in the professional training of the sociocultural manager

Abstract

This article addresses the issue of emotional competencies in the professional training of the sociocultural manager, recognizing the need to develop them in university students for a sociocultural management that corresponds to the demands of current Cuban society. The research was carried out from a qualitative design with the use of theoretical methods such as historical-logical, analytical-synthetic and systemic-structural; in addition to empirical methods such as documentary analysis, the survey and the semi-structured interview. The objective was to characterize the emotional competencies in the professional training process of the students of Sociocultural Management for Development at the University of Pinar del Río. The results were shown that emotional competences are knowledge that manages to integrate the necessary resources to fulfill the role of the sociocultural manager, which demands emotional competences such as emotional awareness, emotional autonomy, emotional regulation, competence for life and welfare and social competence. It was evidenced that emotional competencies are considered a type of professional competence and it was revealed that the development achieved by students in relation to these competencies does not contribute to the effective fulfillment of the professional performance of the sociocultural manager. It was specified as conclusions that it is a felt need of students and teachers, to promote the development of emotional competencies in the professional training process of sociocultural managers, since these become knowledge that manages to integrate the necessary resources to make the process more efficient future professional performance.