The reality of the university public management and the need for an integral management model

Abstract

Nowadays, the current management of state Universities has not been able to lead changes due to the multiple economic and budgetary obstacles that do not allow it to manifest a new university management policy in accordance with present-day national demands. Hence, any initiative in this regard, requires the joint effort and teamwork of authorities, professors, students, administrative and services staff in order to achieve the triad training of human resources, knowledge generation, and the creation of respectful social values under a basis of social ethics.

It is precisely in this context, that the Ecuadorian Public University must seek to validate itself within a defined process of management, guaranteeing quality from the creation and the spreading of knowledge; the commitment to motivate change, that transcends and creates the basis for a university that leads the future and seeks a sustainable development for the towns and their actors, For this reason it is necessary to structurally redesign the university management, making it integral, basing itself on quality principles that are the foundation of the development of teaching, as well as the strengthening of the rest of the functions and processes of the institution. This way, it may assume a real commitment to the country in the search for solutions to relevant situations; representative of the national reality, it will define this management as a priority objective, proposing coherent ways to achieve this.

This research focuses on the analysis of the public universities in the Area N ° 6 of Ecuador and its organizational management, considering the management of those who run it, that is, the people who through their daily tasks, create and give added value to the processes of the organization, with the purpose of determining the existence of a defined management model, that intends to solve problems of economic, administrative and social order with an analytical and integrating instrument that facilitates an organizational scheme and directs the operating through corporate governance for the proper management and control of economic, material, technological and human resources. These aspects have ceased to be considered as a priority objective, and have caused these institutions to lag behind their management models in simple activities and tasks developed and focused on solving immediate problems of which the foundations have not been established with regards to a flexible, versatile and universalist university management that faces current and future challenges.

The research approach is mixed: (qualitative and quantitative). The results of this research target is to determine: a) if the current management system applied in the state universities in the Area N° 6 of Ecuador responds to a structured and formal management model. b) To demonstrate if the management model used in the state universities in the Area N ° 6 of Ecuador, is organized considering current regulations and requirements. c) A formal integral management model which will provide adequate tools for compliance and control of processes, activities and tasks in the state universities in the Area N ° 6 of Ecuador, and will promote their continuous improvement.