University as a Social Organization: the Transformation in a Globalizing

Abstract

The processes of changes that take place in university organizations on the modern stage are analyzed in the paper. It is emphasized that these changes are both the indicators and the catalysts of the transformation processes at global and local levels. The attention is focused on changes in such components of the university activity as a social organization like objective (transformation of the goals of activity of modern university), substantial (changes in training programs, forms and methods of teaching, etc.), structural (modernization of the university inner structure). Special attention is paid to changes in the management system that ensures coordination of all organizational units and contributes to improvement of intra-organizational interaction.