Socio-Cultural Management Journal

The Success Phenomenon in Socio-Cultural Management

2021-06-26T09:32:45+00:00

Introduction. Significant for modern realities is the strengthening of people's desire for success, especially in management. However, despite desperate efforts, the vast majority of people do not succeed. This is because people do not understand what success is, its essential basis, and ways to achieve it. At the same time, the cardinal changes that are taking place today under the globalization influence necessitate a new understanding of this phenomenon's nature. Purpose and methods. The purpose of the article is a theoretical and philosophical analysis of the success phenomenon and identification of causal patterns of its achievement in the socio-cultural management of post-industrial society. The methodological basis of the study is the dialectical principle of cognition, systemic, metaphysical, culturological, psychological, organizational approaches to the study of behavioral processes in management. Results. The existing methodological approaches to the study of the phenomenon of success in the life of an individual and society as a whole are considered. The essence of success as a socio-cultural motivator of human activity and the driving force of management is revealed. Existential types of success and mechanisms of its achievement are defined. The most important personal qualities of the individual are revealed, which guarantee success in the role of a manager. The modern paradigm of management pedagogy is substantiated, with orientation on successful managers’ preparation. Conclusions. The scientific novelty of the research results is to deepen the understanding of the nature of the success phenomenon and the peculiarities of its achievement in the conditions of complicated social relations, uncertainty, and turbulence. The significance of the study is manifested in the addition of management science to new ideas about success as a driving force in management, as well as in the possibility of using these ideas in the process of training business organizations managers.

Innovative Potential of Modern Cultural Strategies: Ukrainian Context

2021-06-27T06:58:43+00:00

Introduction. The creative and cultural industries have made significant adjustments to the modern world economic processes, which provokes an increased interest in the cultural sphere in general and in the cultural strategy in particular. Purpose and methods. The purpose of the article is to identify the innovative potential of culture in modern conditions and its implementation ways through cultural strategies and creative industries, both in the universal and in the Ukrainian context. The methodological basis of the study was the systemic-structural method, the method of formal-logical research, analysis, the comparative method, the system-thought-activity methodology, and the deconstructive approach. Results. An integrated approach to culture allows considering it as an open space for the interaction of people, ethnic groups, nations that are the subjects of economic, political, and cultural innovation. Cultural development is represented through vertical-horizontal interactions between cultural strategy, cultural policy, and creative industries. Conclusions. The Ukrainian State is currently rethinking the role of culture in general and cultural strategy in particular, facing the problem of forming an integral Ukrainian-oriented space. The new approach to the structure of culture includes not institutions, but the creators and consumers of the cultural product, who initiate a single cultural space creation. That allows identifying the innovative potential of culture and cultural strategy. Ukraine’s innovative cultural strategy and its implementation through cultural policy and creative industries can serve both to consolidate society and to solve economic problems.

Cognitive Stylistic Component of Socio-Cultural Activity Manager Training

2021-06-27T07:25:13+00:00

Introduction. The relevance of the study is due to the need to train managers with a systemic adaptive ability to operate with technologies, knowledge, and information, the ability to change and adapt to new needs of socio-cultural reality in terms of integration into the global information space. Purpose and methods. The purpose of the article is to determine the cognitive and stylistic features of the manager's personality, substantiate their role in his professional formation and development in the learning environment. The methodological basis is the principles of scientific knowledge (determinism, system, development), the provisions of activity, system, and personality-oriented approaches. Results. The researchers systematized scientific approaches to the cognitive styles’ definition, substantiated their role in professional development and manager's personality development. Cognitive styles are defined as cognition strategies, cognitive-stylistic dimension of personality, which determines the ways of setting and solving problems, decision-making and goal-setting. The psychological parameters and characteristics of cognitive-stylistic features are singled out, the factors of cognitive-stylistic development of the manager's personality in the training conditions are determined. Conclusions. The scientific novelty consists in concepts’ definition of professional formation cognitive-stylistic component and the manager's personality development and in highlighting the optimal parameters and characteristics of cognitive styles for its successful functioning. The practical significance of the study is to reveal the possibilities of applying knowledge about cognitive and stylistic features in the learning optimization, cognitive activity development of the socio-cultural sphere managers.

The Archives Governance in Conditions of Archive Fund Digitization

2021-06-27T08:05:42+00:00

Introduction. The scientific and technical progress processes in the 21st century led to a state strategy formation for the general digitization of the whole country. With the implementation of innovative digital technologies into the work of archival institutions, the state and society will have the opportunity to expand their access to the informational base, and the use of modern methods will help them to get the most objective and authentic information for the state, society and scientific regulation, open the additional resources for analyzing the information wealth of archival funds. Purpose and methods. The purpose of the research is the modernization process implementation analysis of Ukrainian archival space based on means and instruments of archival institutions digitization through the prism of state policy. To solve the problem of the research, a traditional set of general scientific principles (determinism, reflection, unity of opposites) and methods (analysis and synthesis, systematic and structural, questionnaire, content analysis, observation, statistical) were used. Results. The article describes the normative tools as an element of state regulation of archival space digitalization in Ukraine. Archival digitalization elements in the context of modernization transformations of society and the state were analyzed. The results of the study are confirmed by a sociological survey on the topic: “Do we need the digitalization of the archives?”. Conclusions. The whole way of archival industry development shows that the main contradiction in archival activity is tracing to traditional and innovational methods of archives work. The reason is the need for sustainable components to stabilize the process of archive development, which eventually will form compulsory innovations.

Management of the Library Socio-Cultural Activities in Terms of Information and Communication Changes

2021-06-27T09:38:48+00:00

Introduction. The relevance of the problem of managing the library’s socio-cultural activities is associated with information and communication changes in society, which require the library practices formation, non-standard solutions development, the emergence of new ideas for library activities. Purpose and methods. The purpose of the article is to develop scientific provisions and practical recommendations for managing socio-cultural activities of the library in terms of information and communication changes. These changes will provide new opportunities for high-quality cross-border information interaction of library with users, simplify access to library resources and services simplify access to library resources and services and, as a result, promotes a positive image, improve the libraries’ quality and efficiency. The methodological basis of the study is the dialectical principle of cognition, systemic, historical, terminological, cognitive, cultural approaches to the study of management processes of socio-cultural activities of the library during the period of information and communication changes in society. Results. The existing approaches to the terminology field of library science in different historical periods are systematized. The libraries’ role and functions in the socio-cultural development of the individual are studied. Traditional and innovative types of activity in the central library system “Svichado” are determined, their efficiency is investigated. The sociological study results show that for effective library operation in the information and communication space, it is necessary to improve the skills of librarians and establish time norms that would regulate the activities of social networks. Conclusions. Management of libraries’ socio-cultural activities, in the conditions of information and communication, changes will allow reaching a new, high-quality level, and promotes the library development under the modern society requirements.

Situational Tasks Usage in the Professional Training of Socio-Cultural Activity Managers

2021-06-27T09:58:15+00:00

Introduction. Cultural and creative industries play an essential role in the modern economy. That is why the question of socio-cultural sphere management has become very significant. Due to the manager's involvement in this process, whose activity content is in managing and expanding cultural values and cultural product production, there is a necessity for innovative methods identification in socio-cultural activity managers' professional training. Purpose and methods. In the research process, general scientific methods as analysis, synthesis, systematization, and generalization of theoretical principles have been used, as well as specific scientific methods of terminological analysis, retrospective, biographical, comparison, concretization and classification, and empirical methods of discussion and pedagogical observation. Results. The importance of situational tasks as a dominant organizational form of socio-cultural activity managers' training has been clarified. Topics of situational tasks have been developed, which have been formed in the blocks. Situational tasks types have been characterized: “on the mobile decision”, “on decision choice”, “on data analysis”, “example tasks”, “on justification”, “on abilities and skills formation”, “on argumentative decision”, “on decision taken analysis”, “on information search”, “on complication”, “on algorithm production” and “on foresight”. The structure and content of the situational task have been analyzed and recommended professional situations in management have been presented. Conclusions. The scientific novelty of obtained results is in the theoretical support of the situational tasks usage necessity as an organizational form of problematic education in the training of managers, and practical value is in their competitiveness advancing.