Moynelo RH, Peña VD, Fernández OB, Batista GT

Language: Spanish
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ABSTRACT

Introduction: The continuous upgrading of the cadres who direct the university processes constitutes a priority from the scientific perspective and a challenge in these times. In order to promote the integration of management with the political-ideological, the teaching, the methodological, the educational and the scientific-investigative aspects is a function of the persons in charge of the higher education institutions, for which it is necessary the permanent updating through postgraduate upgrading, through the routes of professional upgrading institutionally organized and by the continuous and permanent self-upgrading that corresponds to all professionals and managers.
Objective: To design a strategy that contributes to the improvement of the management work of the heads of the teaching departments by updating their knowledge and skills for the continuous improvement of this level of organization and educational management.
Methods: A developmental study was carried out combining theoretical, empirical, and statistical methods. Surveys were applied to an intentional sample of heads of departments, professors and managers, in order to obtain information that would allow designing the strategy, which was later validated by selected specialists.
Results: We identified shortcomings related to management work, methodological work and the training in management techniques. These elements, obtained in the diagnostic stage, allowed the design of the proposed strategy that consists of four stages: the design of the management functions of the teaching department, the diagnosis of the current state of the management work of the heads of the teaching department through the identification of the learning needs, the design of an upgrading program in management, and the evaluation of the proposed strategy by specialists.
Conclusions: Management work must be conceived as part of the upgrading of the heads of the teaching department, in order to ensure that they can act within reality and transform it to meet the objectives of professional training. The results show that department heads present difficulties in carrying out management tasks as well as insufficient motivation. A strategy was designed to raise knowledge and motivation about the work of the heads of teaching departments at General Calixto García School of Medical Sciences, which is now in the implementation stage after being validated.