On the 15th of April, during the class on “Modern trends in Studies in Management” Oleksii Makaryuk, the director of LLC “Road Construction” (RGM Group) provided a guest seminar for Ph.D. students in Management Studies. During the class, Mr. Makaryuk shaped in one list the main insights and findings in Management that he made since he started his career as the lead manager at the industrial enterprise. His advice and lifehacks can be a bestseller one day, and now they are shared in a form of discussion with future doctors of philosophy. The empirical shreds of evidence from the practice are important for researchers to get an understanding of the links and casualties between phenomena in management, organizational behavior and to be on the edge of modern trends in science and practice.
Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University
On April 12, Ekaterine Lomia visited the fourth-year students of the specialty Public Management and Administration as part of the study of the discipline Management of European Integration Processes (teacher – Iuliia Myroshnychenko). Ms. Ekaterine is a researcher, a PhD Candidate in Political Science, visiting lecture at the Faculty of law and social sciences at European University (Tbilisi, Georgia). The sphere of scientific interests of the speaker is the research of foreign economic and European integration processes. The topic of the meeting was "Management of European Integration Processes (a case study of Georgia)". The event was conducted in English with consecutive translation into Ukrainian from the teacher of the course.
Ms Lomia has discussed Georgia’s success towards the EU and NATO aspiration as well as the challenges and difficulties towards the country’s EU integration. Ekaterine Lomia has provided the retrospective analysis of EU-Georgia relations since Georgia’s independence and the current situation in the country's occupied regions. In addition, the features and problems of public administration in Georgia were discussed during the practice-oriented event.
On April 7, a practice-oriented class was held with Inna Viktorivna, a graduate of SSU, the founder of the international publication of positive news BitukMedia and the International Communications Agency BitukAgency.
Bytiuk I.V. has 10 years of experience in PR, journalism and social communications; worked with top officials and top managers of international organizations; Honored Journalist of Ukraine; Candidate of Sciences in Social Communications. Inna Viktorivna visited students majoring in "Management" and conducted an interesting, interactive lesson on the course "Self-Management" on the topic: "Image. Brand. Reputation: a formula for success and a kaleidoscope of opportunities.
Students learned a lot of interesting things about the features of communication technologies in the business environment and about methods of overcoming stress. Inna Viktorivna is a graduate of the specialty "Journalism", Faculty of IFSK. Today he actively develops and makes successful his own brands BitukMedia and BitukAgency, as well as the brands of his clients. Inna Viktorivna advised how to achieve ambitious goals for students on the case of her own brands. The students expressed their gratitude to Bytyuk Inna Viktorivna for an interesting and very useful lesson.
On April 8, 2021, the final presentation within the framework of the Global Virtual Class "International Business and Leadership" took place. Pavlo Kostetskyi, a former Ukrainian Foreign Service official, who served in diplomatic missions of Ukraine in Mexico, Nigeria and Angola (2009-2017), delivered a presentation on the topic “Diplomacy and Business”.
Students of speciality “Managements” learned many interesting facts about the work of diplomats, about the peculiarities of this profession, as well as how diplomacy and business are related in practice. Particular attention was paid to Africa, as one of the important areas of business development and trade for Ukraine. Many interesting cases, stories of the subtleties of the work, its advantages and disadvantages, as well as opening opportunities for students to get a job in diplomatic missions of Ukraine abroad by applying for the vacant positions on open competitions. We are sure that in the future we will see our graduates among the employees of the embassies of Ukraine!
On April 6, first-year students of specialties “Management” and “Public Management and Administration” visited a webinar from Kyiv-Mohyla Business School "Changes in the Cube: Manager, Team, Society", speaker: Natalia Ulyanova, CEO & owner of the consulting company Una // Partners, Level UP platform, co-founder of the startup Re-Climate. She started her career as a lawyer at ICF Legal Service, and later, under her leadership, the company entered the TOP-50 law firms of Ukraine and the TOP-500 law firms in the world. In 2018, Natalia and her team joined the global corporation Deloitte, whereas a partner she led the practice of comprehensive business transformations. In the same year, she entered the world ranking of Best Lawyers in the categories: Corporate Law, Banking, and Finance Law.
On April 8, 2021 Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv hosted the second stage of the All-Ukrainian Competition of Student Research Papers on “Project and Program Management”.
22 research papers were presented at the scientific and practical conference. Sectoral Competition Commission announced 11 winners (10 research papers)
The research paper on “Application of a project approach to the implementation of energy-efficient technologies” authored by Natalia Petrenko (second-year student in a Master’s program in Management) was awarded a diploma of the second degree (scientific supervisor – Alona Yevdokymova, Ph.D in Technical Science).
We sincerely congratulate the student and her supervisor and wish them further inspiring victories
April 1, 2021 as part of the "Global Virtual Class" students of specialty "Management" met with Subheer Ramnoruth, Strategic Management Consultant and Entrepreneur, Director of Academic and International Relations at Whitefield Business School.
During the meeting, students learned about the history and economy of Mauritius and other African countries, governance of these countries, blue economy and ethical aspects of leadership.
Students gr. EN-93 / 2pu specialty "Public Administration" together with the teacher Kobushko Ia.V. studied the intricacies of building an organizational structure in a master class by a certified consultant Adizes Institute (USA) Borys Shevelov. Budget structure for managing the new structure, "color" management structure, principles of grouping functions, matrix of responsibility, centralize or decentralize the organization, communication between departments. This type of student activities took place within the discipline "Organization of administrative activities." The organizer of a series of master classes on organizational design is the OTA Group Organizational Delegation Studio.
Dr. Stanislav Ivanov, Professor in Tourism Economics and Vice-Rector (Research), Varna University of Management, Director of Zangador Research Institute Editor-in-chief of European Journal of Tourism Research (EJTR) and ROBONOMICS provided seminar in the topic "Key issues in writing a research paper" on the 26th of March. More than 100 participants from all around the world, including PhD students of Sumy State University, faculty members and researchers got the opportunity to know the best practices of papers publishing at top-ranked journals in a field of modern research.
Spring motivates people to activate all the processes in their lives, actualises the development of practice-oriented competencies (practical skills and abilities). This is also true for learning activities. Therefore, even on Saturday (many people believe that this is only a day off, but not our students and teachers) on March 20, students of the specialities "Management", "Public Administration and Administration", "Administrative Management" with spring persistence joined the March event - an open webinar "State Labor Inspection. What to expect for managers of enterprises, organizations, institutions ".
It was conducted by the Chief State Inspector of the sector on the examination of working conditions of the State Labor Office in the Sumy region Kolesnik Irina Viktorovna, who graduated from our department.
On March 30, Andriy Avdeenko, a practicing specialist and commercial director of PJSC Sumyagroprombud, visited an online lecture for the 3rd year students of the Management educational program. The meeting was organized by Associate Professor of Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management, Olga Dreval. The lecture was devoted to practical issues of material required planning of enterprises.
Quite complex issues were discussed, among which were provocative ones: "Is ProZorro really transparent?", "Kickbacks in the process of supply of material resources. And how to fight them?"
Andriy Avdeenko shared his experience, told about interesting cases from his professional life, commented on an event that took place recently in the Suez Canal, when a giant container ship got stuck on the beach and all delivery deadlines were disrupted.
- Webinars in Teaching & Research for PhD students and faculty go on!
- Presentation by legendary CIO Les Ottolenghi on “Technology and Globalization”
- Baltic University Program: Reunion for Education for Sustainable Development
- Students attended a webinar from KSE
- The 5th session of Virtual Program “Excellence in Teaching & Research” is online now!
- We continue to invite practitioners to conduct online classes
- Conference at Webster University (the US)
- The sessions of Global Virtual Program " Excellence in Teaching & Research" goes on!
- The course from the University of California is completed
- Teacher's participation in the opening workshop "Entrepreneurship and career guidance in the functioning of a modern educational institution"