UMA CONTRIBUIÇÃO AO ESTUDO DA LIDERANÇA SOB A ÓTICA WEBERIANA DE DOMINAÇÃO CARISMÁTICA

This work intends to discuss the leadership phenomena under the perspective of the weberian theory of charismatic domination. The authors discuss leadership as a power relation in the weberian sense of authority. Power is a subject that is recurrent in Weber (Whimster, 2009). The present study, a descriptive research, adopted a qualitative approach and was made possible through semi structured interviews applied in nine leaders and key managers of seven Social Organizations (SO) from the Metropolitan Region of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, among the biggest of the sector. The results suggest that among all the interviewed (all with long trajectory of founders and conductors of SO) only two represent a charismatic leadership as described by Weber. The social work fulfilled with goodwill and heroism, as perceived until recently, is ceding space for professionalization, including managers. However, the Weberian holiness and the heroism still resist in the XXI century and can the basis of questioning for many processes of humanization in the organizations.