The Management of Power and Ethics in Higher Education

Rubi Peniche Cetzal^1, , Victor Rosario Muñoz², Elia Marum Espinosa² and Cristóbal Ramón Mac¹

¹Faculty of Education, Autonomous University of Yucatan, Merida, Mexico

²Community College of Administrative and Economic Sciences, University of Guadalajara, Guadalajara, Mexico

Cite this paper:
Rubi Peniche Cetzal, Victor Rosario Muñoz, Elia Marum Espinosa and Cristóbal Ramón Mac. The Management of Power and Ethics in Higher Education. American Journal of Educational Research. 2015; 3(4):456-459. doi: 10.12691/education-3-4-11

Abstract

This study aimed to determine the presence of micropolitics in an institution of higher education in the educational community, located in the eastern state of Yucatan, Mexico, focused on two areas: the management of power and ethics of the participants.Organizations exist for a reality of daily interactions of people struggling to put their own interests, but this should not be allowed to forget the human factor that everyone should consider. Do not forget that human beings, beings who will become the foundation of society, and that may be the ones to conform or direct social groups to which they belong now are educated. Apparently disciplinary groups combined in its essence both sociological aspects as academics, recognizable in the close relationship of their negotiations or scope, according to their resources that count. There may be specific to a field that includes a mooring of meanings and social interactions structural conditions. Teachers who have long been performing in the organization, they want to continue staying with increasing benefits; those that carry less time, subsisting with intent to occupy a privileged place and recognized. This entails all the dynamics of school micropolitics. Everything is a function of the interest, which in many cases render material and symbolic type.

Keywords:
micropolitic higher education power teachers

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