Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University

According to the latest results of the 2021 call of the Agency for Education, Audiovisual and Culture (EASEA), Oleg Balatsky Department of Management teams won three projects of the Jean Monnet Erasmus + program, two of which will be led by teachers of the department.

These are Hanna Shvindina's project "Educational Agenda for Intercultural City Development" (team: Tetyana Vasylieva, Yuriy Petrushenko, Tetyana Mayboroda) and Svitlana Kolosok's project "Smart energy cooperation in Europe: educational project for youth leaders" (team: Iuliia Myroshnychenko and Ihor Vakulenko). Kostyantyn Kyrychenko joined the project "With Academic integrity to EU values: step by step to common Europe." The projects involve 12 teachers, 6 of whom are teachers of Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management.

We look forward to new interdisciplinary courses that will be aimed at spreading European values ​​and knowledge of the European Union!

On November 18, was held the last class of the COIL module "Conflicts, International Leadership and International Business", where in one class were studying our third-year students of the education programme “Management” together with students of Washington State University (USA), Bingham University (Nigeria), Kyiv National Economic University and Kyiv International University. The last session was incredibly interactive and emotional, as students from three continents exchanged their impressions, questions, smiles and summarized their work during the module. That was an insightful virtual trip during last 1,5 months. Amd we are sure - it will continue! After all, virtual academic mobility has become an integral part of the lives of our student managers. Great thanks to all participants and we hope to “zee” you in the new modules.

A short reminder, that the developers and coordinators of the COIL module were: Tetyana Mayboroda, lecturer of the Oleg Balatsky Department of Management and Dipra Jha, Professor at Carson College of Business, Washington State University. Tetyana Mayboroda also attended workshops under the International Leadership Academy program from Education USA and completed in December 2020-February 2021 a relevant COIL design course from State University of New York.

On November 10, 2021, the students of the 1st year students of the Master’s program in Project Management had an excellent opportunity to meet and communicate with a graduate of the Department (education program “Project Management”) Galyna Nereta – the General Director of the private enterprise “Shopping Mall “Kiev”

The meeting took place within the framework of the study of the course “Planning of project actions” (lecturer Alona Yevdokymova).

Galina has experience in implementing a large-scale project to revitalize an enterprise (Poltava city).

Students had the opportunity to ask the questions as follows:

– What the project is about?

– How did the idea of such a project appear?

– What was the motivation for its implementation?

– What is the project budget and funding sources?

– How the teamwork is structured?

– Whether there were the persons-demotivators in team and how to keep in touch with them?

– etc.

Today, students of the Oleg Balatsky Department of Management took part in a webinar www.ota.group in live broadcast format. Topic of online discussion "Matrices of responsibility and business processes on Adizes: cases and examples"

 The webinar was conducted by a certified trainer using the Adizes methodology - Boris Shevelyov. He shared with the audience useful information: on the main problems of forming business processes, how best to prescribe business processes, how best to use the matrix of responsibility for Adizes.

Great opportunity to communicate with a practitioner !!!

Within the "International Management" course which is provided by Professor Mesut Çiçek from Washington State University for our students, on the 10th of November Dr. Hanna Shvindina became a guest lecturer. She shared her knowledge and expertise on being abroad on academic exchange. And she performed research in Cultural peculiarities of communications in different countries. The organizational structures of global corporations are becoming increasingly complex due to the opening of branches around the world, and if you know certain features of cultures, socio-political factors of change, you can develop a successful strategy. We wrote more about this class earlier here.

On November 16, Iryna Proshchenko, a head of the Department of Budget Expenditures and Inter-budgetary Relations of Sumy Oblast Territorial Body of State Treasury Service, visited the first-year students specialities of "Management" and "Public Administration" for an online lecture on discipline "Management Theory and Administration". The meeting was organized by Associate Professor of Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management, Olga Dreval.

Iryna Proshchenko, a former graduate of Sumy State University. She has worked in the public administration system for many years, has the status of a civil servant and also holds a managerial position. Iryna Proshchenko interested the students by telling them in simple words about rather complicated things. She talked about budget funds, about the functions of the State Treasury Service of Ukraine in the field of their service, about the single treasury account, about the need for coordination in the process of receipt of funds and expenditures, and so on. Mrs. Iryna answered the questions and from the first minutes attracted the attention of students with her professionalism and charisma!

On October 21st, Tetyana Mayboroda, the lecturer of Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management, and her students presented group project “Conflicts, International Business & International Leadership” in the frame of COIL module with Professor Dipra Jha, Washington State University. Together with her 3 students Maryna Medvedieva (Ukraine), Faith Emmanuel (Nigeria), Agyemang Adusei (Ghana) was held an informative session on countries' outstanding conflict analyses in Ukraine, Ghana & Nigeria, their peculiarities & causes, their impact on economy & international business, and also special attention was paid to leadership aspect in the conflicts. “Orange Revolution in Ukraine”, “Chieftaincy Conflicts in Ghana” & “Police Brutality in Nigeria” – all this is about society in XXI century. The presentation aroused great interest from the peers from other countries and universities, students and lecturers shared their impressions and noted the similar and unique features of the considered conflicts between the countries.

Second-year students of the specialty "Public Management and Administration" study course from VUMonline "Uniform requirements (standard) to the quality of service to visitors of Administrative Services Center." as part of the discipline "Organization of administrative services"

The main aspects of the course are personal standards of quality service (communication and behavior of administrators) and consideration of non-standard situations and analysis of the quality of CNAP management. Students were able to learn from the experience of practitioners in the course - the heads of centers for administrative services, and hear the practical recommendations of a psychologist on communication and service to citizens.

As a result of the courses, students received certificates.

On October 23-24, a 2-day on-line training to increase their own productivity on the topic "Secrets of self-management" was held for residents and guests of the city. The training was organized by the Lifelong Learning Center.

The training was conducted as a solution to cases, discussions and interactives. Participants identified the most significant chronophages and proposed methods to combat them, estimated the cost of own time, got acquainted with the methods of time rationalization and features of the use of kairos, learned to form Smart-goals and set priorities, distinguish important cases from minor ones according to the Eisenhower matrix, learned to organize your day properly, work effectively with information achieve the goals and cope with stress.

  1. We involve experts in the field of practice-oriented classes!

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