Personnel Reserve In Managing A Higher Education Organization

The purpose of the article is to present the author’s experience of using the potential of the personnel reserve in the process of making managerial decisions. It is a question of joint development of the competence model for different groups of university personnel. This kind of activity contributes to the development of professional and managerial competencies, personal resources, the exchange of experience among themselves, the establishment of interdisciplinary relations in the university environment, which, in fact, underlies the idea of creating a personnel reserve. The goal is achieved on the basis of competence and system approaches to management issues of higher education. The research methodology is based on the use of general scientific methods, such as: phenomenological description, focus group method, included observation. The practical significance of the research is to develop a mechanism for creating, forming and developing personnel reserve of SFU, the technology of its attraction to the management life of the university when building the competence model of different groups of personnel, transforming collective knowledge into the final product. This kind of joint creativity has a strong motivational effect, as it gives employees the opportunity to feel their involvement into the university’s common affairs, understand their own value, importance of their opinion for management when developing a development strategy and preparing main documents. The contribution of this study to the theory and practice of university management is to present to the professional community the experience of attracting a pool of personnel for the development of an essentially independent assessment of the university personnel through the construction of a competence model where participants see their colleagues and themselves through the prism of the requirements for professionalism and personality of the employee of a modern university. It is shown that the joint activity of management and reservists provides an opportunity for the growth of internal knowledge, the development of corporate culture and the formation of human capital. The article is of interest for university management, HR specialists in the field of the human dimension of the university.