Track: Knowledge Management

Abstract

The current international context demand the application of modern focuses of management that is why the internal control, to the being a process integrated to the operations with a focus of continuous improvement, becomes a priority in the organizations. Front this challenge the Universities has intended the improvement of the component of management and prevention of risks. The investigation has as objective to develop a procedure for the management and prevention of risks for processes in universities and as main results of its application it is obtained, from the strategic perspective a group of lines of action of improvement to continue for the improvement of the capacity of strategic prevention and from the operative one the inventory of risk, its classification, qualitative evaluation, the map of risks, with the definition of the priorities and the plan of prevention. In the study theoretical methods were used as: analysis and synthesis of the information obtained starting from the literature revision and specialized documentation, list of checkup, as well as of the experience of specialists and consulted workers, empiric methods as interviews, direct observation, consultation of documents for the summary of the information, among others that contributed to the execution of the outlined objective, and statistical methods how the descriptive statistic and the coefficient Alpha of Cronbach to measure the reliability of the applied instrument.