Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management
BiEM Sumy State University

On March 23-24, 2021 associate professor Denys Smolennikov joined the event "BUP Reunion" of the Baltic University Program. It took place online via Zoom and unite participants form previous educational projects of the program in 2017-2020.

Participants had the opportunity to meet online, chat in small groups, take part in a design thinking workshop, share ideas and successes of their change projects, which they implemented in their universities.

Denys Smolennikov was a participant in the internship program for teachers "Education for Sustainable Development", which took place in 2017-2018 at the University of Abo University (Turku, Finland) with two face-to-face seminars at Kaunas University of Technology (Kaunas, Lithuania) and Riga Technical University (Riga, Latvia).

March, 25 students specialties "Management" and "Public Management and Administration" attended a webinar from KSE "The role of corporate culture in transformation". The speaker was Iryna Papusha, PhD, non-executive director, board member of Ukrainian and Dutch companies, corporate governance advisor.

"The manager has two tools - strategy and corporate culture", that's how Irina's webinar started. When you look at the corporate culture of an organization, you are actually looking at the total amount of behavior of all employees. Corporate culture has a great impact on employee engagement, productivity and business growth. Depending on the goals of the company, industry and other factors, a transformation is often required that will allow you to create the desired culture.

Our colleague, Tetyana Mayboroda, Senior lecturer of Oleg Balatskyi Department of Management, completed the training from the University of California, Irvine, and was awarded a certificate in the course “Types of Conflicts”. This opportunity appeared thanks to the Coursera platform and “Coursera for Campus” program offered by Sumy State University. This course enables to implement a new experience and knowledge, in particular within the course “Conflict & Organizational Change Management” for students in Management.

By the way, this is the third completed course by Tetyana Mayboroda this year. We wish her further success!

 

The Virtual Program “Excellence in Teaching & Research” went on with the presentation of Professor Dpra Jha from Washington State University, Associate Professor Hanna Shvindina and Associate Professor All Krasulia, our colleagues from Sumy State University. The event was diverse, full of useful information in a sphere of online learning and digitalization of education, the insights and ideas about sharing knowledge were enriched by the insigts from the student’s side. The students from management studies, Mohamed Ali Abida and Ahmed Bezina were participants at the previous sessions with Professor Jha and Professor Shvindina and they share their experience on being enrolled in such a training.

Senior Lecturer of Oleg Balatsky Department of Management, Ph.D. Yuliya Opanasiuk took part in the IV All-Ukrainian openings-workshops for modern heads of educational institutions, methodologists, teachers and lecturers "Entrepreneurship and career guidance in the functioning of a modern educational institution."

The following topics were presented during the opening: "Business education as a guarantee of development of young enterprising entrepreneurs", Master class: "Visualization of information - a" musthave "in career guidance work", aster class: "Carrying out a SWOT-analysis of an educational institution", "Strategy for the development of educational institutions", "Conducting project activities in educational institutions".

During the opening workshop participants learned about the features of ZNO-2021, the basic skills that employees can have in 2025, prospects for the introduction of entrepreneurship with the use of game technologies. Participants were presented with a computer program-simulator ViAl +, which realistically models the production enterprise and the market environment of its activity.

March 18 for fourth-year students gr. SR-71 specialty 231. "Social work" was an interesting practice-oriented event in the discipline "Strategic Management with a content module: Management of social work. Organization of systems of documentation of social work "(teacher - Ph.D., Assoc. Prof. Onishchenko M.). A meeting was held with Yanchenko Serhiy Volodymyrovych, Chief Specialist of the Department for Youth and Sports, as part of the topic's study: "Peculiarities of social service management for youth."

The meeting took place in a question-answer format. Students received meaningful answers to questions, namely: on the management structure of the Department of Youth and Sports; additionally focused on the issues of quarantine restrictions, as this affected the activities of the structure as a whole; within the strategic direction, the questions concerning the Program "Youth of the city of Sumy for 2019-2021" became very interesting.

On March 9, an online discussion "Creating and maintaining the resilience of leaders in a crisis" was held, which was attended by graduate students of the Department of Management and course teacher Galina Mishenina within the discipline "Organizational Development Management". The webinar was organized by Academy DTEK together with INSEAD - a global business school recognized № 1 in the world.

 At the online meeting, Speakers Declan Fitzsimons (Professor of Organizational Behavior INSEAD) and Valeria Zabolotna (Rector of Academy DTEK) talked about the resilience of leaders in today's world, discussed the nature of organizational resilience during the crisis and changes in the role of the leader. The discussion on the issue of personal stability, its impact on the ability to lead a team in difficult times was interesting.

On the 16th of March Head of the department, Hanna Shvindina took part in the conference “Advancing Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion in Academic Business Research: East-West Dialog of Values” held at Webster University (St.-Louis, the US). The presentation was devoted to the topic “Equity challenges: research perspectives in Ukraine”. The seminar united many scholars from all around the world interested in the topic and ready to contribute to positive changes.

On March 3, 2020, a training on international academic mobility was held for first-year students majoring in Management and Public Administration. Invited speaker - Deputy Head of the Department for International Affairs, a PhD student of the Department of Management named after Oleg Balatsky, project manager of the NGO "Center for Adult Education" in Sumy city - Kotenko Stanislav Igorovich.

He spoke about current international academic mobility programs, international summer schools and workshops for students. The meeting was held in a dialogue mode. Participants received a lot of helpful information about the specifics of applying for a grant, writing a cover letter and CV, as well as the use of international mobility in the learning process.

On this Wednesday, the 17th of March, the colleagues from Sumy State University, professor Oleksii Lyulyov, and associate professor Tetyana Pimonenko, both representatives of the Department of Management, shared their experience and expertise in the sphere of bibliometric analysis and data processing. This seminar involved more than 100 participants from all around the world and gave new opportunities to undergraduates, Ph.D. students, and faculties to find a clear algorithm for processing the bibliometric data.

We are thankful to our colleagues who joined the International Program that took place in the partnership with Washington State University and we wish them further success!

The Thursday 11th of March was an intense and interesting day for several cohorts of students from Washington State University and Sumy State University. Within Global Virtual Class “International Business & Leadership” Professor Erdogan Koç from Bahçeşehir Üniversitesi shared his knowledge on "Influence of Culture on Customers".  

Head of the the department, Dr. Shvindina hosted the session in cooperation with Professor Mesut Çiçek from Washington State University.

Amazing session within Global Virtual Class brought new light to many phenomena in a sphere of marketing and management related to organizational behaviour, international relations, hospitality in global aspects.

  1. Seminar by Dr. Key from University of Nebraska-Lincoln
  2. Universities and business. More successful together!
  3. New insights on Bibliometric Research from Purdue University!
  4. Buckle up! We go on!
  5. The 1st Session of the Global Virtual Program went well!
  6. Successful defenses of master thesis by students of the speciality "Management & administration in health care"
  7. Оn-line meeting with a specialist in public administration
  8. Participation in the seminar on the internationalization of higher education
  9. Student' participation in online events "Ukraine-NATO."
  10. The 1st Session of the Global Virtual Program will start soon!
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