People management and competencies in Higher Education Institutions

Abstract

The paper presents a proposal on the competencies that administrative and teaching staff should have in their initial training for recruitment in Higher Education Institutions. It is based on a bibliographic review carried out as a master's degree in Quality Assurance in Higher Education, at the Nihon Gakko Private University. The focus is on the competencies that teachers or administrative personnel should have as specific training in the area they teach or where they perform their work to meet the performance standards required by education. In the next area, teacher competencies in the pedagogical area are described, such as: planning, methodology, use and selection of didactic and technological resources and learning evaluation; cultural competencies are also mentioned, and in the last point, the competencies of continuous training and professional development are emphasized. As a transversal axis, the profession represents leadership, ethical commitment, and vocation, capable of satisfying the learning needs of students, of cultivating in them values that allow them to live as true citizens, of responding to the fulfillment of administrative-teaching performance standards in a versatile society.