Public Administration

 

Candidate of Historical Sciences M. Andrienko

(Kyiv City)

 

SELF-MANAGEMENT IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION OF FIRE SAFETY SYSTEM IN UKRAINE

 

The relevance for the issues of effective public administration of the fire safety system development, which is caused by the need to ensure a high level of fire safety in Ukraine and minimize fire effects and the recovery costs, is the basis for a research of an approach to create a self-management model in public administration of fire safety system.

The known domestic and foreign researchers of this problem who emphasized the importance of addressing self-management issues are O.S. Anisimov, P.K. Anokhin, D. Gibson, A. Knyazev, S.P. Kurdyumov, S.P. Mosov, V.E. Hitsenko, D.S. Chernavskii, I.I. Chernelyuk, G.P. Shchedrovitski and others.

The self-management model in public administration of fire safety is proposed to be built using a set of principles: the principle of "purposeful behavior", the principle of "adaptation", the principle of "external turbulence", the principle of "internal resistance", the principle of "ability to predict", the principle of "unity of parts in the whole" and the principle of "distinction between "positive" and "negative" organization".

The initial organization of the fire safety sphere public administration in general can be imagined as follows. Within the management process public authorities make decisions u to achieve a specified goal in the fire safety sphere. End of purpose evaluation is normally carried out by comparison between standard values of performance indicators n0 and obtained values n resulted from completion of assignments z, defined by the fire safety public administration authorities. Occurrence of differences Δ = n0n indicates the potential of future crisis situation in the fire safety sphere due to the failure of the objective to be achieved. The process of public administration and the condition of the fire safety sphere are affected by changes of external f, f ’ (financial and economic factors, scientific and technological factors, socio-economic factors, natural factors, etc.) and internal g, g ’ (human factors, equipment, financial resources, etc.) environments condition.

It should be noted that according to modern experience the basic principle of administration is management "by deflection". This approach does not always produce a positive result and sometimes provides for a record of negative facts only. The principle of administration "by indignation" is hardly used due to poor theoretical development of the methodology of detecting critical situations in the fire safety sphere at early stages of their possible occurrence – when identifying symptoms of a crisis situation. Due to the fact that the self-management outline in public administration of the fire safety sphere is actually absent, there is a significant dependence of the management quality on the command of management art by leaders in the system of fire safety public administration.

Taking the foregoing into consideration here are the grounds for the general structure of the self-management model in public administration of fire safety system. Under the principle of the "purposeful behavior" initial results of the fire safety sphere are to be analyzed by public management authorities taking into account the values of differences Δ. Thus, the structure of the self-management model should have analyzer Ap that will determine availability of differences Δ between standard values n0 determined as a result of the approved management solution u and controlled outputs n for each fixed process of tasks performance in the fire safety sphere, as well as their influence on the degree of completion of these tasks z.

The information obtained from analyzer Ap is to enter optimizer V, the function of which is to develop solutions aimed at restructuring processes of solving problems in the fire safety sphere to improve their phased and output performance. Implementation of each organizational decision will be made by means of actuating element Y, which should determine the specific mechanism of its implementation. Similarly to analyzer Ap the structure of the self-management model is to be complimented with analyzer of public administration process Aду.

Using the principle of "adaptation" requires consideration of the relation between changes in conditions of external f, f ’ (principle of the "external turbulence") and internal g, g ’ environments (the principle of the "internal resistance") and the goal to be achieved. The principle of "adaptation" is complementary to the principle "purposeful behavior".

Using the principles like the principle of "ability to predict", the principle of "unity of the parts in the whole" and the principle of "distinction between "positive" and "negative" organization" does not require any additional elements and links to the self-management model as they are interconnected with the principles of "purposeful behavior" and "adaptation" and are to be implemented in optimizer V.

There is another principle – the principle of "external additions" which requires assessment of the functioning quality of the hierarchical public administration process by highest governing bodies of the State. For this purpose it is necessary to introduce additional feedback paths.

Thus, the self-management model will include analyzers Ap of processes for tasks performance in the fire safety sphere and analyzer Aду of the fire safety sphere public administration process, measurer of changes in external and internal environments S, optimizer V and actuating element Y. Similar outline of self-management should be present in every subsystem of the general system of fire safety public administration in Ukraine.

 

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