Culture and Organization in a University

Abstract

The article is a reflection product of the recently completed doctoral research project titled The Desertion as Organizational Dysfunction. The Case of the Pascual Bravo University Institution of Medellin, Colombia. To understand the concept "organization", it is necessary to go to the origins of other categories such as culture, basic for a broader understanding of it. A detailed analysis of this concept, developed by recognized anthropologists and sociologists who have elucidated it from the 19th century to contemporaneity, is made. It is thus understood that the organization is culture. The objective was to understand the link between the two variables; to make an analysis of the concept of culture in an organization that learns like the university. The methodology used was of a reflexive type, applying the bibliographic review method. It is concluded that the learning and intervention to the different dysfunctions of a university organization are more successful when it analyzes from the inside its own organizational cultural reality, with an attitude open to criticism, innovation, and change, without expecting that the external conditions change.