Herramientas para el Diseño Organizacional y la Efectividad en Instituciones de Educación Superior

Abstract

Institutions of higher education today have been faced with a global reality, which makes them
increasingly competitive, a scenario often not very favorable to develop its original vocational role
which is educate, so they have seen the need to readapt to this situation, and thus being affected in its
consistency, objectives and the way of how to make it work effectively. This article’s main objective is
to propose a management tool of organizational design in higher education institutions studying the
relationship between organizational design and effectiveness, taking into account some elements from
different approaches which the management theory has developed throughout history and the concept of
situational leadership, in which the main ideas are applied to the theories of administration understudy.