Administrative management of universities: background and consequences

Yana I. Serkina; Anastasia V. Logvinova

Yana I. Serkina National Research University "Belgorod State University" Russia
Anastasia V. Logvinova National Research University "Belgorod State University" Russia

Keywords: University, administrative management, formalization, standardization, imitation.

Abstract

The aim of the study is to empirically substantiate the theoretical analysis of the prerequisites, challenges and trends of modernity, causing global changes in the management system of modern universities. These include massing, the pragmatism, standardization, marketization. These trends determine the transformation of the management system of universities in the direction of administration, which, on the one hand, acquires the ability to meet the challenges of our time, and, on the other hand, reproduces the pathological processes characteristic of quasi-corporations.
Methodology. The sociological study was aimed at studying the dispositions of the participants of the educational process regarding the negative consequences arising in the management system of the University. For this purpose, General scientific and private scientific methods were used: comparative and system analysis, bibliographic research, analysis of documentary sources. Data collection was carried out with the help of a sociological survey of respondents, in-depth interviews of experts. The results were processed in Vortex and Microsoft Excel.
Main conclusions. The authors identified and analyzed the possible benefits and negative consequences of excessive expansion of the scope of administrative practice in higher education. These include reduced interest in work, reduced creative activity and limited opportunities for creativity, the image of activity at the expense of real activity, quantitative growth of the management apparatus, nepotism and favoritism, violation of the integrity of information flows, unjustified formalization of internal processes, loss of confidence in the leadership.
Novelty / originality of this study. The materials of the study allow us to expand our understanding of the management system of administrative type universities, its advantages and disadvantages. The results of diagnostics can be used in the activities of state bodies managing the system of higher education, higher educational institutions in the process of improving the management of the University.

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Author Biographies

Yana I. Serkina, National Research University "Belgorod State University" Russia

Candidate of Sociological Sciences, National Research University "Belgorod State University" Russia

Anastasia V. Logvinova, National Research University "Belgorod State University" Russia

Graduate student National Research University "Belgorod State University" Russia

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