Problems of managing the university human capital at the educational environment digitalization context

Abstract

The article discusses modern approaches to the «human capital» category definition, trends in developing human capital and its management system in higher education institutions of the Russian Federation. The paper determines that the problem of the educational environment is a current direction of modern pedagogical research. The authors study issues of qualitative changes at the university educational environment under conditions of dominating a new technological order in socio-economic processes, the digital economy development. The educational environment of Tomsk Agricultural Institute – Novosibirsk State Agrarian University branch is structured based on the analysis of psychological, pedagogical and economic literature, regulatory and legal support of the educational process, as well as the university general management system, the human capital of its teaching staff, and the analysis of the capital itself in particular. The article outlines the problematic field of managing the teaching staff human capital under conditions of the educational environment digitalization of the educational organization under study determining its actual tasks based on observation results of the human capital management process at the university, questionnaires and interviews of its teaching staff, calculation and analysis of estimated indicators of human capital. The most problematic areas of management activity of Tomsk Agricultural Institute under conditions of growing the informatization and digitalization processes are the following: human capital management in the field of educational, methodological and research work of university teachers. The authors conclude on the need to improve the human capital management system of the educational organization under study. They propose to implement the mid-term project «The teaching staff motivation of Tomsk Agricultural Institute – Novosibirsk State Agrarian University branch to work effectively under conditions of digitalization of the educational environment». It will allow raising the mechanism effectiveness of interacting the university administration and employees belonging to the teaching staff at the Institute e-learning field through forming a system of employee tangible and intangible incentives.