UDA launches book on new type of administration

The rector Francisco Salgado is one of the authors of this work. Defend that the challenge is to think beyond the demands of the market and profits.

This week, Universidad del Azuay, UDA, presented the book 'Administración y Pensamiento Social', the result of the work of several Latin American authors.

Wilson Araque, editor and co-author of the book, participated in the launching event; Andrés Abad, dean of the Government and Public Administration Center of IEAN, who was in charge of commenting on the work; Cristina Acuña Bermeo, co-author of the book, and Francisco Salgado, who made the official presentation of the work.

The different interventions emphasized the importance of transcending traditional administrative models focused only on the market and on productivity, towards new models with a more human, social focus, and with priority on positive relationships between people and the environment.

Salgado mentioned that in the model of the current company, the human being has become one more gear of the company, and that the challenge of today is to think beyond the demands of the market and the profits that can be received, This added that reciprocity is given totally by the other without expecting anything in return: "The administrator must think, generating in the team an emancipating spirit". To illustrate, the rector indicated that one of the most important inventions is the web, and this did not arise with a profit purpose but as a model of reciprocity to share with others.

Andrés Abad, commentator on the work, mentioned that the current administration tends to ignore the third sector, which is the social sector, "this book inspires to think about a new form of administration in which a social dimension is involved, where the being human is not just a piece of a great system, but a social actor ”as a result of this joint cooperation between people. (I)

Francisco Salgado mentioned that in the model of the current company, the human being has become one more gear.