AN EXPLORATORY NOTE ON THE EFFICIENT UNIVERSITY MANAGEMENT

Abstract

This note extends some of the points developed in Kara (2018, 2019) so as to explore new avenues for an efficient university management. The particular avenues we will explore center around certain processes that we think are fundamental, namely the processes of accumulation, concentration and deepening of knowledge, experience, skills/capabilities and expertise that facilitate or give rise to scientific output. One can suggest policies that could influence those processes and help the university to achieve its objectives. Such policies could be derived through properly formulated and solved optimization problems involving objective functions and constraints of the university. The objective functions to be formulated should properly take into account the possible paths in the world of science and realistically reflect the university’s short and long term target and preferences. We will make some suggestions for constructing objective functions incorporating the objectives of the university.

Keywords

• Knowledge-Based Processes of Accumulation
• Concentration and Deepening
• Efficiency
• University Management

ETKİN ÜNİVERSİTE YÖNETİMİ ÜZERİNE AÇIMLAYICI BİR NOT

Abstract

Bu kısa makale (not), Kara (2018,2019) kapsamında geliştirilen bazı fikirlerden hareketle, etkin üniversite yönetimi ile ilgili yeni bir açılım getirmeyi denemektedir. Söz konusu açılım, bilgi, tecrübe, yeterlik ve yetkinliklerle ilgili birikme, yoğunlaşma ve derinleşme süreçlerine odaklanmakta; bu süreçleri etkileyerek, üniversiteyi amaçlarına taşıyacak bazı politikalara işaret etmektedir. Bu politikalar, üniversitenin amaç fonksiyonları ve kısıtlarına dayalı, doğru formüle edilmiş optimizasyon problemlerinin çözümlerinden türetilebilirler. Formüle edilecek amaç fonksiyonlarının, üniversitenin kısa ve uzun dönem hedef ve tercihlerini, dünya bilimindeki doğrultuları da dikkate alarak, gerçekçi bir tarzda yansıtmaları gerekir. Makalede, üniversitenin amaçlarını temsil edecek amaç fonksiyonlarının kurgusu ile ilgili bazı önerilerde de bulunulmaktadır.

Keywords

• Bilgi-Temelli Birikme
• Yoğunlaşma ve Derinleşme Süreçleri
• Etkinlik
• Üniversite Yönetimi

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