COVID-19 as a Social Catalyst for Organizational and Management Dysfunctions in Higher Education

Galina Makovich, Sergei Arzhanukhin

2021

Abstract

Based on the method of modeling abstract ideologized objects and the method of participatory observation, the paper identified organizational and managerial dysfunctions and pathologies in the development of modern higher education, which manifested themselves in the situation of the coronavirus pandemic with the declared mobilization informatization of higher education in Russia. Dysfunctions manifested themselves in absence of conceptual certainty of the final result, orientation towards quantitative rather than qualitative results, decentralization of responsibility for the quality of the result, and the absence of resource calculations for project implementation. The paper shows that the mobilization model of informatization was not implemented, but mobilization measures were taken in an emergency situation of forced self-isolation of the actors of the educational process. In essence, the managerial interest was reduced to adapting the available standard analog materials and teaching methods to the digital mode of operation. Education followed the path of socio-cultural and socio-structural simplification, launching mechanisms for adapting education models that preceded the crisis associated with the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic. This became a stabilizing factor in the situation of the coronavirus pandemic, but sharply raised the question of Russian state priorities, among which the key is stability to the detriment of development.

Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

Makovich G. and Arzhanukhin S. (2021). COVID-19 as a Social Catalyst for Organizational and Management Dysfunctions in Higher Education. In Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference "COVID-19: Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals" - Volume 1: RTCOV, ISBN 978-989-758-617-0, pages 254-259. DOI: 10.5220/0011118800003439

in Bibtex Style

@conference{rtcov21,
author={Galina Makovich and Sergei Arzhanukhin},
title={COVID-19 as a Social Catalyst for Organizational and Management Dysfunctions in Higher Education},
booktitle={Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference "COVID-19: Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals" - Volume 1: RTCOV,},
year={2021},
pages={254-259},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0011118800003439},
isbn={978-989-758-617-0},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF

JO - Proceedings of the 2nd International Scientific and Practical Conference "COVID-19: Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals" - Volume 1: RTCOV,
TI - COVID-19 as a Social Catalyst for Organizational and Management Dysfunctions in Higher Education
SN - 978-989-758-617-0
AU - Makovich G.
AU - Arzhanukhin S.
PY - 2021
SP - 254
EP - 259
DO - 10.5220/0011118800003439