Corporate university as innovative corporate training institution model

This paper presents the results of researchconducted on the basis of the training centre of the company Gazprom Transgaz Tomsk, Ltd. The author examines the concept of"innovation" using the definition given by G. Azgaldov and A. Kostin: "…innovation is a process or a result of the process that is notonly something new itself but also the improvement of the previous product/service/process and this improvement corresponds to theworld level or is better that the world level". Also, the conceptions of innovations in pedagogy proposed by V. Lazarev, B. Martirosyan,N. Postalyuk, A. Khutorskoi, G. Prozumentova, and L. Vesnina are considered in this paper. It is underlined that innovation process andinnovation activity are the key concepts of the innovative pedagogy. The innovation process in its turn has three components - creation,development and adaptation of innovations. To give a definition of the innovative corporate training centre the classification ofinnovations in pedagogy by M. Burgin is used. He differentiates innovations into technological, methodological, organizational,managerial, economic, social, and legal ones. The author offers a model of an innovative corporate training centre. It is supposed thatthe innovate corporate training centre is a type of an educational institution within an organization, in which most of the pedagogicalinnovations are introduced systematically and complexly. Those innovations are directed at the development of a harmonious individualwho is aimed to be successful. The author considers the corporate university as a system of corporate training united by the commonconception of training and methodology within the framework of the philosophy and strategy of the company and developed for all kindof the company's employees. Comparative analysis of the models of corporate university and corporate training centre as well as themodels of corporate university and innovative corporate training centre are presented in the paper. The analysis includes the trends ofthe development of corporate universities both in Russia and abroad and overview of the main differences between a corporate trainingcentre and a corporate university. It is concluded that the corporate university can be a model of the innovative corporate traininginstitution under an indispensable condition of systematical and complex introduction of pedagogical innovations.

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