Resumen

GUIJARRO DE CHAVEZ, Mayra  y  CHAVEZ SANCHEZ, Jorge. Ethics and University Management. Revista Venezolana de Gerencia [online]. 2006, vol.11, n.34, pp.201-220. ISSN 1315-9984.

In the world today, the need for an ethical conduct is ever more relevant in the management of universities and this contributes to the need to assume congruent management practices in the distinct areas that co-exist within the academic world.  This paper proposes a documentary review of university management and organization from a perspective based on the need for ethical principles as the pattern for a new framework which should prevail in Venezuelan institutions of higher learning in the XXI century. The results point out the role of the Venezuelan university in this moment of necessary and fundamental change, representing a new expression of a new form of university life, which turns out to be an unavoidable and primary need for Venezuelans. The great challenge of Venezuelan universities is to provide quality education and ethical institutional responsibility in order to illumine students and to demonstrate that shadows are shadows, and we must choose the pathway to light.

Palabras clave : Management; ethics; university; values.