Career Management Of Higher Education Teaching Personnel

Abstract

The article analyzes the career management mechanism of university teachers in modernization of higher education. These days there is a transformation of principles in managing professional opportunities of person in an organization. The system of formation and realization of individual career strategies of university teachers is also changing. In recent years the system of preparing and attestation of academic personnel has noticeably complicated, professional demands to university teachers has become more stringent, in particular, in case of publication activity indicators. Competition on the intra-university labor market has increased. New approaches towards development of career and vocational qualification plans for higher-education teaching personnel are forming in this context. On basis of the analysis of official statistics and the findings of opinion poll among university teachers the general individual career strategies of higher-education teaching personnel have been highlighted. The principal strategy is oriented to the development of scientific potential, the defense of PhD thesis. Career management of higher education teaching personnel is considered as two-way process, which, on the one hand, includes the work of administration and human resources service, and, on the other hand, the work of employee himself. The analysis of current mechanism of career development has been conducted from the lens of main actors of educational relations. The principal target of career planning from the perspective of administration is adaptation and submission of individual career strategies of university teachers to the strategic tasks of the development of the whole university.