The article grounds the mechanisms of solving the problem to develop the university students social psychological monitoring system as an education management tool that enables to fulfill the gap of knowledge about the object under control. The research represents the results of the second phase of the Samara university students and prospective students social and psychological monitoring system project. The research first phase formulated the students social and psychological monitoring conceptual framework, revealing readiness to maintain business and research activities as a personality integrative characteristic comprising needs, motivations, values and social attitudes. The present article gives the complex methodology that will be applied in the Samara university students social and psychological monitoring to study their readiness to maintain business and research activities. The methodology comprises social and psychological methods and research techniques, enabling to evaluate extensively the needs, motivations, values, social attitudes and readiness for education activities: 1) Likerts scale; 2) P.M. Lapin and T.V. Razinas adopted motive classifications; 3) M. Rokichs methodology for value orientation study; 4) S. Schwartzs methodology for diagnosing value orientations; 5) questionnaire for examining business and research intentions and attitudes; 6) A.L. Zhuravlev and V.P. Pozdnyakovs modified methodology for diagnosing business motives, Yu.S. Medvedeva and T.V. Ogorodovas methodology for revealing research motivations.The monitoring methodology, resulting from the research, will be realized as a program module in students accounts of the Samara university electronic educational system. The monitoring results will base the recommendations for both students and prospective students when choosing the individual academic path within the competency profile formation, and the university educational, research and business administration authorities.
The article states and grounds the task to develop and introduce the system of university students monitoring as a tool to manage education process that enables to solve the problem of lack of knowledge about the object under control. The article describes theoretical and methodological reasons for the monitoring system. It analyses comprehension of competency profile, taken as an integrative index of the education result: this index enables to evaluate the learning process efficiency from the point of view of the requirements applied to the subject-matter specialist. The authors describe the monitoring conceptual framework and the possibility of its adaptation to reveal students readiness to maintain business activities and research. The conceptual model of the students competence profile is based on understanding the concept of readiness for any activity as personality integrative characteristic including needs, motivations, values and social attitudes. The article proves the procedure of students motivation diagnostics, the diagnostic procedure of their value system and intentions, and social attitudes. It articulates the way of developing and introducing the social psychological monitoring system, associated with sociological and psychological methods being included into the complex evaluation technique. These methods comprise: 1) estimation technique for the personnel involvement into the company activity; 2) Likert scale; 3) adopted motive classifications by P.M. Lapin and T.V. Razina; 4) M. Rokichs methodology for value orientation study; 5) S. Schwartzs methodology for measuring value orientations; 6) methods for IAT and VAAST attitudes indirect diagnostic.
This article is devoted to the analysis of the university trade union activity in the modern context. The authors overview the existing approaches to the analysis of the trade union movement in Russia, give the sociological study data on the demand for various activities of the Samara University trade union, its coverage in the university media and on the trade union website, and also proposals for improving the trade union activities. It is concluded that following activities are the most demanded and favorably evaluated by the university personnel: recreation and health improvement measures for employees and their children, organization of mass participation events, provision of social benefits and financial assistance. At the same time, the respondents question one of the main tasks of the trade union the ability to improve wages and working conditions for the Samara University employees. Based on the results of the study, practical recommendations for the trade union committee were formed, including the most important recommendations: activity increase in wage security and the trade union information work.
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