University’s nonspecialized kinds of activities switch to outsourcing
The article has been made up by using the materials of the research into methods of switching to the business model of university. It describes practical experience of using outsourcing at university. The aim of this article is the substantiation of the reasons and need to transfer nonspecialized university’s kinds of activities to the specialized companies on the terms of outsourcing. The route of the development of higher education in Russia requires universities to be in compliance with the normative of proportion between the number of the teaching staff and support personnel. The instrument able to exclude nonspecialized university’s kinds of activities and fulfill special normative is outsourcing. Apart from that, in practice there is a number of internal factors restricting the processes of development of universities. One of the most important of them is a long-standing practice of expanding nonspecialized kinds of activities and unreasonable transfer of universities’ resources to their maintenance. The aim of the article has been achieved owing to review of the literature on the use of outsourcing, analysis of the normative and other legal documents, description of the procedure of applying outsourcing in the university activities and description of the problems arising in the process of its implementation. As the result of the conducted research we have found out the following reasons of negative influence of nonspecialized kinds of activities on the universities: high costs, savings on standards, contradiction between the aims of managers of nonspecialized kinds of activities and aims of the university, possibility of abuse from the nonspecialized structures’ staff and so on. The study of literature showed that the most important advantage of outsourcing is the concentration of the efforts on such activities directions that need closer attention and possibility to release resources for development of new directions. The practical recommendations, formed on the basis of applying outsourcing at the university, consist of defining certain goals to be solved when the outsourcing is applied: determination of main and additional kinds of activities; estimation of factors for making decision on outsourcing; determination of level of responsibility for making a decision; going into the question of applying industrial outsourcing. We have estimated economic reasonability of transition of university’s team of electricians and sanitary technicians to outsourcing. As to scientific newness of this article it can be related to the use of existing university’s restrictions connected with inefficient use of resources and turning them into the instrument of development. The results of the research prove that the management of the university development through elimination of restrictions can be accessible, economical and clear.