DEVELOPMENT POTENTIAL OF HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS: CHARACTERISTICS AND ASSESSMENT IN THE CONTEXT OF CHANGES MANAGEMENT
The article analyzes the characteristics of the development potential of higher education institutions, which is an important component of the justification of management decisions related to changes. The purpose of the study presented in this article is to substantiate the criteria parameters of the development potential of an educational organization of higher education. The research is based on the hypothesis that the characteristics of sustainable development of the university can be considered as the changes strategic goals. The study methodology is based on the concept of sustainable development of socio-economic systems, methods of system analysis and expert assessments. To assess the development potential, we use the characteristics of innovation, human resources and management information support by applying the method of expert evaluation using an interval scale. Assessment of the development potential of an educational organization of higher education during changes is one of the elements of the methodological basis for the formation of change modeling programs aimed at improving the sustainability of higher education institutions.
Keywords: educational organizations of higher education, development potential, sustainable development, potential opportunities for innovation, human resources potential, information security potential of management.
Highlights:
♦ the potential of a socio-economic system is defined as its ability to ensure its long-term functioning and achieve strategic goals with a given resource provision, while the overall achievement of the organization’s key goals is defined as ensuring its sustainable development;
♦ as criteria for evaluating the potential of university development through changes, the characteristics of its sustainable development can be analyzed, evaluated through three subsystems of indicators: the potential of innovation activity, human resources and information security potential of management;
♦ the potential of innovative activity of an educational organization can be characterized by the following indicators: the speed and depth of updating educational programs, the level of grant activity, the level of development of innovative infrastructure and the level of use of the project approach to management;
♦ it is suggested to characterize the human resources potential by means of the following indicators: the level of qualification of scientific, pedagogical and administrative employees, the level of employee involvement in project activities, and the level of employee motivation;
♦ to assess the potential of information security of management, it is suggested to use such indicators as the information capacity of the organization, the level of development of the unified information space and the quality of information support for management activities.
Elena A. Kandrashina, Doctor of Economics, Professor of Samara State University of Economics.