Working environment. Considerations for a Higher Education Institution

Palabras clave: organizational culture, organizational performance, teacher, university

Resumen

Teachers’ work is influenced by their perception of their work environment, projecting this into the quality of education and product delivered to society. Therefore, this study analyzes how the work environment manifests itself in a Higher Education Institution, considering affiliation, commitment, communication, motivation, recognition, and other factors that affect the performance of a university teacher. The results show that teachers’ perceptions of their work environment are internally differentiated, with factors such as commitment, internal communication, recognition, empathy, physical integrity at work, remuneration, joint participation between work teams, and authority having negative connotations. A suggestion for improvement is executing plans designed to generate an effective organizational change in the detected weaknesses.

Biografía del autor/a

María Leonor Parrales Poveda

Doctor in Pedagogical Sciences, Master in Business Administration, Economist. Research professor at the Faculty of Administrative and Economic Sciences, Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabí. (Jipijapa, Ecuador). Email: maria.parrales@unesum.edu.ec. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3994-3711 (Autor de correspondencia)

Kelly Gabriela Rodríguez Gutiérrez

Bachelor of Business Administration, Master of Digital Marketing and Big Data, Universidad Internacional Iberoamericana. México. Email: Kelly-rodriguez98@hotmail.com. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1637-9866

Diego Renato Sornoza Parrales

PhD. candidate at Western University, Canadá. Master in Administration of Information Technologies, Economist, Professor of the Faculty of Technical Sciences, Universidad Estatal del Sur de Manabí. (Jipijapa – Manabí, Ecuador). Email: diego.sornoza@unesum.edu.ec. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9319-9298

María José Fienco Parrales

General practitioner, Master in Occupational Risk Prevention, Universidad Internacional de la Rioja. (Logroño- La Rioja, España). Email: majo_13@hotmail.com. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7167-3913

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Publicado
2023-08-05
Cómo citar
Parrales Poveda, M. L., Rodríguez Gutiérrez, K. G., Sornoza Parrales, D. R., & Fienco Parrales, M. J. (2023). Working environment. Considerations for a Higher Education Institution. Revista Venezolana De Gerencia, 28(9), 68-84. https://doi.org/10.52080/10.52080/rvgluz.28.e9.5