Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University

On September 10, 2021, a practice-oriented class for group УП.м-11 on the course “Project actions planning” (lecturer – Alona Yevdokymova) was held at the Department of City Strategic Development of Sumy City Council. Considering the case study of development of Sumy City Development Strategy until 2030, the brand of Sumy city and the information and analytical system of programs of Sumy city development, students had the opportunity to learn about the tools, methods and procedures, that the Department uses for planning projects, programs and project portfolios, as well as to gain practical skills on the principles of prioritization while project planning.

We thank the Department of City Strategic Development of Sumy City Council for professionalism!

From the beginning of the term, the new COIL project has started. Last week, students had an amazing opportunity to join the discussion about the IKEA case during the session held at Washington State University. The course “International Management” is embedded in the course “Strategic Management” course for the undergraduates in Management studies. The start was great, let's hope for the continuation of the excellent cooperation between our universities. We are grateful to Professor Dipra Jha, who was initially an idea bringer to this project, and Dr. Mesut Çiçek, who kindly agreed to be co-instructor and managed the online sessions for our students synchronically with the students of WSU.

The “Strategic Management” course instructor is Dr. Hanna Shvindina, the head of Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management.

This year's Enrolling to Students of Sumy State University took place on August 31. Among more than 900 freshmen, the students of the specialties "Management" and "Public Administration" gave the “Oaths of a student”. The dedication was, as always, rich and emotional; students and their parents heard kind words of congratulations from Sumy Regional Council Chairman Viktor Fedorchenko, Regional State Administration Chairman Dmytro Zhyvytsky, People's Deputies of Ukraine Mykhailo Ananchenko and Tetyana Skrypka. Rector of Sumy State University Vasyl Karpusha welcomed the freshmen and handed over the first student ticket.

Congratulations to the students who joined our team, and we wish you inspiration in your learning process!

On September 7, 2021, Professor Hanna Shvindina, Head of the Balatskyi Department of Management, and Tetyana Mayboroda, Lecturer, participated as co-speakers at the International Strategy and Leadership Series. This set of webinars are organized to celebrate the 15th anniversary Whitefield Business School, now the Mauritian partner of Sumy State University. 

The master class was dedicated to the topic "Coopetition strategy and its Perspectives in Industry & Hospitality Sectors". Interesting cases of coopetition, discussion of the importance of intercultural competencies - aroused lively interest among the participants. The class was concluded by a  very active session of questions and answers in which the international cohort of online listeners took part.

In August, a meeting of representatives of the Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management took place in the children's health camp "Universe" with students of schools of Sumy. The participants of the meeting took the first steps to understand "Am I a leader?", Especially since the third change of the camp is special, because almost all children who took part in the mini-training are leaders in certain fields and have talent. First of all, they are athletes of both team sports and various types of martial arts. They were joined by artists - artists, musicians and other talents.

Gifted young people were defined with the main qualities of a leader, drew and presented their vision of a leader. In this they were assisted by Associate Professor of Management O.F. Balatsky Valenkevich L.P., graduate student of the second year of study Balagurovska I.O. and 4th year student majoring in "Management" Kovalevsky M.M.

Postgraduate student of the Department of Management. O. Balatsky Kotenko Stanislav took part in the International Interdisciplinary Scientific Conference "Digital Technologies and Sustainability for Development Management: Economic, Social and Environmental Aspects", organized by the London Academy of Science and Business (London, England), Sumy State University (Sumy, Ukraine), Stanislaw Staszych University of Applied Sciences (Pila, Poland). The conference was held on September 11, 2021 in online format. It was attended by more than 20 participants and speakers from 7 countries, including Morocco, Algeria, Great Britain and Poland.

Stanislav Kotenko presented the results of collective scientific work in co-authorship with professors Hanna Shvindina (SSU) and Irina Geiets (RMIT, Australia). In his presentation, the graduate student of the Department of Management gave important arguments in favor of taking into account migration factors in the system of determining the level of competitiveness of regions, and suggested ways to solve the difficult situation related to the outflow of labor in Ukraine.

Scientists of the Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management have been continuing to test the results of their research at international conferences. Tetiana Bondar, Ihor Vakulenko, Alyona Yevdokimova, Svitlana Kolosok have taken part in the work of The International Conference on Innovation, Modern Applied Science & Environmental Studies and published articles on the topic:

“Combined electricity pricing model taking into account the green tariff and traditional factors” (Halynska, Y., Bondar, T.), “A systematic literature review of smart grids” (Vakulenko, I., Saher, L., Lyulyov, O., Pimonenko, T.), “The first step in removing communication and organizational barriers to stakeholders' interaction in Smart Grids: A theoretical approach” (Vakulenko, I., Saher, L., Syhyda, L., Kolosok, S., Yevdokymova, A.).

 

 

The new join online learning is about to start, and a new course in “International Management” will be partly provided for the students in “Management Studies”. This course is developed and implemented by Dr. Mesut Çiçek, Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Marketing and International Business, Carson College of Business, Washington State University. This is a prolongation of COIL traditions between the WSU and Sumy State University which enriches the life and future opportunities of students cohort from both sides. This course is designed to help students understand how the different dimensions of the globalization process affect the strategic and operational management of the international business.

From 22 to 25 June there was a state certification for students of specialty "Public Management and Administration".  State certification included a state exam and online defense of bachelor's thesis.

The students showed their professionalism and knowledge of the public sphere. At the defense, students considered current topics: features of local government reform, strategic planning of regional development, managing the development of local communities, increasing the motivation and ethics of civil servants, etc.

All theses were practically oriented and were performed as a case of state and local governments, which once again confirmed the professionalism of our graduates. representatives of local authorities took part in defenses, they noted high level of knowledge of subjects and urgency of researches.

The International Series on Strategy and Leadership is now open for admission! This series of workshops allow you to meet leading professors from the USA, Europe, South Africa, India, and Mauritius in a virtual class with students from 4 continents!

As part of the 15th Anniversary Celebrations of Whitefield Business School, WBS is offering this workshop FREE of cost!

Here are the Workshops:

You may join one or multiple sessions. The sessions are 100% online and of duration 1 hour each, starting as from 30th August 2021. All classes will be held at 8p.m Mauritian Time (GMT +4), it is 7 p.m. Ukrainian time

Date: 6th September 2021- Leading during Storms, by Subheer Ramnoruth from Whitefield Business School

On June 23, students majoring in 073 Manager during the defense of bachelor's theses presented research on the organization's competitiveness, the system of development and motivation of staff, and strategic planning in an international company. The variety of topics that the students worked on testifies to our students' wide range of preferences.

  1. We are proud of the R&D of young scientists!
  2. Defense of diploma theses of bachelors
  3. The summary about Virtual Global Class “International Relations & Global Leadership”
  4. The teacher of the department received a diploma of Candidate of Economic Sciences
  5. Welcome to study at the Oleg Balatskyi Department of management!
  6. We congratulate participants on the completion of virtual academic mobility!
  7. Microsoft Fundamentals certification
  8. Congratulations to the winners of the International scientific and practical conference of students and young scientists named after professor Oleg Balatsky «Economic problems of sustainable development»
  9. The Department of Management once again held an online meeting of the Expert Council of Employers in the specialty "Management"
  10. Practical-oriented learning is our priority
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