TY - JOUR TI - SITUATIONAL APPROACH TO ANALYSIS AND EVALUATION OF ORGANIZATIONAL STRUCTURES OF EDUCATION AUTHORITIES T2 - Public Administration Issues IS - Public Administration Issues KW - regional education authority KW - organizational education management structure (OEMS) KW - diagnostics of management structures KW - quality of management KW - functions of educational management KW - management defects KW - situational approach to the diagnostics of OEMS KW - characteristics of OEMS KW - analysis and assessment of OEMS AB - Emerging management challenges often make regional education authorities start transforming their organizational structures. But, as a rule, such reconstruction takes place without analysis and evaluation of the existing structure, identification of its defects and their impact on the management quality. Underestimating these procedures happens because of the lack of scientific and methodological framework for the regional organizational structural research. Ultimately, even new structures are linear-functional, that is why management efficiency cannot be sufficiently increased under dynamic conditions. This article reveals a situational approach to the diagnosing of the organizational structure of the regional education authority in the constituent entity of the Russian Federation. Situational diagnostics includes a set of criteria and procedures that were used to assess the structure of the education authority in the Murmansk region. Diagnostics of the structure of this authority showed poor performance of signifi cant managerial functions, imperfection of the way they are combined, and inconsistency of the organizational structure with the requirements of the external and internal environment. As a result, the situational approach to the diagnosing of organizational education management structures made it possible for managers to assess the authority performance completely in real-time mode, to change their ideas about the priorities of this performace, and to recognize previously unnoticed details.  AU - Lyudmila Rogozina AU - Artem Punantsev UR - https://vgmu.hse.ru/en/2020--2/371812825.html PY - 2020 SP - 168-192 VL -