Network approach to the corporate educational environment
The article is devoted to the peculiarities of designing a corporate training system in a modern organization. Based on various methodological approaches (process, activity, network) and research methods (analysis, synthesis, comparison, generalization), the authors conclude that amidst digitalization, the corporate educational environment can no longer be built as a hierarchical structure, but should be a network. A theoretical model of the corporate educational environment is presented. Its structure (external and internal contours), the main network actors, the capital they have, are determined; and the nature of the connections between the interacting actors is studied. The network's internal contour is formed by the heads of the organization, employees of the personnel management service and the corporate university, teachers, staff (students), and analysts. The external contour involves such actors as specialists of third-party educational organizations, students and academic staff of institutions of general and vocational education, clients, partners, contractors, experts in personnel management. The analysis of corporate non-financial reporting for 2019-2020 by a number of leading Russian employer companies confirms the implementation of a network approach to training. The conclusion is made about the development of online learning, non-linearity and openness of relations between actors, thanks to which it is possible for representatives of various target groups to participate in educational events without taking into account territorial, time constraints and even status positions. Special attention is paid to specific examples of interaction with the corporate educational network external contour. The authors also answer the following question: what environmental actors and why attract enterprises to educational activities today?