History of the Department of Management named after Professor J. S. Zavadskyi
The Department of Management named after Professor J. S. Zavadskyi was established in 1973 as the Department of Agricultural Production Management (until 1996) within the structure of the Ukrainian Agricultural Academy.
The founder and head of the department for 30 years was Josyp Stanislavovych Zavadskyi, Doctor of Economic Sciences, Professor, Academician of the Academy of Sciences of Higher Education, Honored Worker of Science and Technology of Ukraine.
From 2003 to 2019, the Department of Management named after Professor J. S. Zavadskyi was headed by Doctor of Economics, Professor Vasyl Pavlovych Horovyi, from 2019 to 2020 – Doctor of Economics, Professor Nadiia Petrivna Reznik.
Since 2020, the Department has been headed by PhD in Economics, Professor Tetiana Ivanivna Balanovska.
At the stage of formation of the department, the course "Agricultural Production Management" was taught only at the Faculty of Economics, and since 1974 at other faculties. For the first time in Ukraine, the basics of scientific management and marketing were introduced at the department. In the 70-90s, a significant proportion of the educational process of the department was occupied by classes at the Faculty of Advanced Training.
Currently, the department continues to successfully implement its mission, is a graduate department and prepares applicants of the first (bachelor's), second (master's) and third (educational and scientific) higher education levels in the specialty "Management", and also meets the educational needs of students studying in other specialties at the university. The academic staff traditionally pays special attention to the preparation and publication of educational literature. The department’s lecturers are authors of a significant number of textbooks and study guides, practical manuals, dictionaries and reference books, methodological guidelines, as well as course curricula and syllabi.
Modern management science has developed and continues to develop with the active participation of scientists of the Department of Management named after Professor J. S. Zavadskyi of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine. For almost half a century, scientists of the department have remained the flagships of management science in general and agricultural management in particular. The long-term productive work of the famous national classics of management thought – Professors J. S. Zavadskyi and O. D. Hudzynskyi – provides grounds to assert the formation and development of a national scientific school of management on this basis. The research activities of its representatives are aimed at finding effective solutions and approaches to addressing pressing contemporary management problems, particularly in the agrarian sector of the economy and in the development of production management systems at domestic enterprises under conditions of business globalization.
In the 1970s, a doctoral program were opened at the department. Its first postgraduate students were: Assoc. Prof. Ye. S. Hnied, Assoc. Prof. V. O. Prokhorovych, Prof. A. M. Kandyba; among the doctoral candidates were Doctor of Economics, Prof., Corresponding Member of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences V. P. Halushko, Doctor of Economics, Prof., Academician of the Ukrainian Academy of Agrarian Sciences V. K. Tereshchenko, Doctor of Economics, Prof. O. D. Hudzynskyi, Doctor of Economics, Prof. M. M. Horbov.
The department trained specialists in management and marketing through postgraduate studies not only for the national economy, but also for other countries: Syria, Vietnam, China, Georgia, Tajikistan, Nigeria. These traditions are successfully maintained to this day. In total, the department has trained about 100 candidates and doctors of science.
The Department has traditionally maintained close ties with industry. The implementation of scientific research into practical activities is carried out through publications, providing consulting support to agricultural enterprises and associations, the educational and research farms of the National University of Life and Environmental Sciences of Ukraine, and by organizing scientific and practical conferences. Scientific research is carried out within the framework of contractual and initiative topics of work.
