About the Work of Dean and Head of the Department
Modern theory and practice of faculty and department management are important for training qualifi ed personnel and for Russia’s growing economy. This is associated with the formation and development of market relations, as well as expansion of integration into the world economy.Therefore improving the management and the faculties and departmentsis an urgent problem of any university.Simultaneously a dean and a head of the department must be guided by well-known job descriptions that defi ne the direction of their activities. Faculty and department management consists in the precise impact on the entire staff of the department or faculty, as well as on their individual members (teachers), representing a set of processes for organizing the interaction between managers and subordinates. The subject of faculty and department management is its Head, the sole leader, fully responsible for the functioning of higher levels of control over the activities entrusted to him by the system. The object of management is a whole organizational system of department or faculty that is managed through the management of people. Such groups of people have a number of sustainable features and characteristics of the management processes. Some features of the department or faculty management are off ered for consideration on the basis of practical experience.