On 01/25/2017, a conference of the labor collective of the CEU faculty was held, at which they voted to give Dean Khakhanov’s work an unsatisfactory evaluation.
Large organizations are hard to manage. Not everyone can manage themselves. Let alone manage another person, a dozen people, a hundred, or thousands. Over the past few centuries, nothing has changed in managing organizations. The method invented by Peter Drucker, management by objectives, still works in large corporations: Hewlett-Packard, Intel, Samsung. It is the best thing invented in management over the past hundred years.
The CEU faculty took first place in the ranking of all the university’s faculties in the 2015–2016 academic year. The ranking is calculated using a special formula and indicators. The indicators are chosen in such a way as to motivate departments to work better. For example, to bring money into the university, develop research, create a positive image of the university on the international stage, and so on.
And by these indicators, the CEU faculty under Khakhanov’s leadership took first place.
What would they have done at Intel or Hewlett-Packard? Khakhanov would have been given a big bonus, and the other managers would have been told: “Go learn from Khakhanov.” Oh, I forgot to add: one or two managers from the other end of the ranking would have been fired. Well, that’s in organizations like Microsoft, Apple, IBM, Google.
But at KhNURE, after the ranking has already been published, the collective gets together to argue about which is bigger: 5 or 7? The result is Khakhanov’s dismissal. I wonder what it was like at the meeting of the labor collective of the RT faculty, which took last place in the ranking? I bet everything is fine, they’re satisfied with the dean’s work?
I understand that university employees don’t get examples from business, because none of them has a business education. They’re all scholars there, after all. I’ll give an example from mathematics: there is an objective function, and at the university Khakhanov has no equal at optimizing it.
When I studied at the Department of Computer Engineering, I thought it was about 20 years behind the times. Turns out it was behind forever.