This article investigates, by means of a field research involving the application of 220 questionnaires, the perception of telecommunication postgraduate students as well as of those who are posgraduating, about the demands for professional competencies and about the modernity level of the policies and practices of management of the organizations where they operate. As a theoretical reference, the approach to the organizational modernity (Eboli, 1996) as well as the review of competencies approaches done by Sant'anna (2002) were utilized. As for the results, a high level of demand was found for the professional competencies evaluated, that show a weak correlation with the degree of modernity organization, whose score are lower, showing that the demand for professionals, gifted with more and more comprehending competencies, has not been properly followed by modern policies and practices of management.
Organizational modernity; professional competencies; managerial competence; people management; telecommunications
