Governance in the Universidad Nacional Abierta. A vision through Gareth Morgan's metaphors

Abstract

The purpose of this reflection is to make a metaphorical exercise of governability and governance at the National Open University (UNA), thus providing a platform based on analogy and projected into the metaphor of UNA governance we desire. Through a documentary review, carried out basically in Camou (2001), Aguilar (2010); Morgan (1990), among others, analyzed the metaphors of the mechanical organization, organism, brain, culture, political system, mental prison, flow of change and domination mechanism. A comparison was made with the characteristics of the UNA, observing some indications of the current governability that suggest the analogy of a bee hive with its queen bee, its workers and the drones. Then, through a practice of imagination and synthesis of the reflection in integration with the theory of Maturana and Varela (1994, 2003) was reached a creative exercise towards the projection of a new governance based on a metaphor of desirable situation represented by the coupling autopoietic of a flock of birds flying in a V shape.