Keyword: «situational management»

The urgency of developing effective methods of managing a modern institution of additional education for children is due to the economic and social changes taking place in the modern world. Technological and economic changes, modernization of the education system require the organization to introduce innovations and flexibly adapt its structures and methods of work to changing requirements and conditions. The search for new approaches to education management takes an important place in this process. The article emphasizes the relevance of the use of project management methods in the institution for its improvement and optimization of the work and development of the institution as a whole. The purpose of the article is to reveal some aspects of the work of the head in the organization of project activities for the effective solution of the main tasks of the institution development within the situational approach. The situational approach implies considering the situation as a sum of various situational variables in their interrelations. A specific feature of the situational approach we are considering is the use of flexible (adaptive) elements of the management structure. The management system of an educational institution is based on changing variables, factors of the external and internal environment and taking into account the principles of situational management: efficiency, flexibility, variability and optimality. The analysis of project activities practical use in the field of additional education has shown that the solution of project tasks in the institution is carried out taking into account the social and cultural context of the problems under consideration. The theoretical significance of the article lies in the fact that in the course of the study, the components of situational management were identified, the main aspects of the application of project management in an institution were determined, an analysis of project activities in an institution of additional education for children was made. The practical significance of the study is due to the fact that the theoretical provisions contained in it and the practical experience of implementing the ideas of project management in running of an institution of additional education can be used in the work of educational institutions of various types. The novelty of the study is in the identification of the relationship between project management and situational management in an institution of additional education, which has not been practically considered in the scientific literature.