文档介绍：A METHOD FOR IMPROVING THE MANAGEMENT OF
UNIVERSITIES IN TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES
Tatiana A. Medvedeva Stuart A. Umpleby
Department of World Economy and Law Department of Management Science
Siberian State University of Transport The e Washington University
Novosibirsk, Russia Washington, DC, USA
ABSTRACT
Group process methods for problem-solving and planning are now widely used anizations in the . Such methods, which involve the active participation of employees, are not often used at present in Russia. We believe these methods would help Russia move from a centrally planned, authoritarian style of management to a more participatory, information-sharing style of management. Accordingly two training sessions were held with faculty members at universities in Irkutsk and Novosibirsk. This paper describes how these meetings were arranged, the results of the planning activities, and the implications of participatory methods of decision-making anizations in Russia and in other transitional economies.
Keywords: participation, empowerment, problem-solving, planning
PARTICIPATORY PROBLEM-SOLVING AND PLANNING
Improving the performance of anization, such as a university, requires the participation of many people. Leaders anizations need to involve the members of anizations and supportive people outside anization in order to use all of the knowledge and resources available. How can such involvement be brought about? In the . group facilitation methods have proven to be quite effective (Spencer, 1991). This report focuses on one set of these methods called the Technology of Participation (ToP).
The ToP group process planning method can be used with any group of people who share mon interest. They may be residents in munity or an apartment building, members of an association, employees of a business or a government agency, volunteers working with a non-anization, or members of a university department (Umpleby, 1989, Troxel, 1993). A facilitated problem-solving o