MODERN PROBLEMS OF CHANGES MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION IN RUSSIA
The accelerating flow of changes in all spheres of society puts humanity in the face of the problem of determining its place and role in this flow. Should we follow the limits set by the parameters and conditions of the flow, or try to control it? The answer to this by no means idle question should be given first of all by university science - that part of science that produces not only new knowledge, but also the main resource for their practical implementation - competent people. Accordingly, universities should also be in the flow of changes and determine the goals, objectives and content of ongoing changes not only for society, but also for themselves. The basic contours of this personal identity process are already beginning to become clear. There is a consensus that the transformation of higher education should be managed. But many questions, both theoretical and practical, remain open. And the main among them is question of how and by whom this process should be managed. The article deals with the features of the current stage of development of management relations in higher education in Russia. The necessity of transforming university activities is shown. The conditions and approaches to making changes are described. The practical policy of implementing changes is analyzed. Suggestions for its improvement are put forward and justified.
Keywords: changes management, multiagent management, information and knowledge ecosystem, network interactions, balance of interests, network effects modeling.
Highlights:
♦ modern higher education is the core of the information and knowledge ecosystem, which is the driver of civilizational changes;
♦ changes in the higher education system occur inevitably and with increasing speed as a result of the influence of a variety of subjects and factors;
♦ management of changes in the higher education system in modern conditions is becoming increasingly multiagent in nature;
♦ the phenomenon of multi-agent management implies other mechanisms of managerial interactions that are different from those currently used. The result of such specific managerial interactions should be directed changes in the information and knowledge ecosystem, which are further transposed into directed changes in other spheres of social life and the social structure as a whole;
♦ the measures currently being implemented to reform higher education do not fully correspond to modern scientific ideas about the structure and functioning of change management mechanisms in complex socio-economic systems.
Alexander P. Zhabin, Doctor of Economics, Professor, Head of the Department of Management; Elena A. Kandrashina, Doctor of Economics, Professor. - Samara State University of Economics.