The modeling of quality management of educational
organization (youth and adults)
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PhD in Social Sciences (Education Studies)
Klaipėda University Continuing Studies Institute
Klaipeda State College
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Klaipėda University Continuing Studies Institute
Andragogy department, Researcher
Publication date: 2014-09-30
JoMS 2014;22(3):321-331
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This paper analyzes the analysis the modeling of quality management
of educational organization. In democratic society implementing the quality
of possibilities, the aim of education allows to elaborate people’s responsibilities
and capacities” necessary for the realization of individuals
personal functions in society. Thus a big attention is paid to educational
organization as well. Modern, educational organization as organizations
strive to provide the services of qualitative education and satisfy children’s
and parents’ needs, which are as particular consumers’ wishes, the conception
that something is lacking or everything is good, and the expectations
are related to desires aimed at perspective. Thus any organization in
accordance to the opinion of quality management theorists has always to
be interested in consumers’ needs and expectations, because in this way it
wins trust and loyalty.
The quality of service is governed and modeled by provider.. So the
ethics of heads, teachers and other employees of educational organization
is very important as well as the competences in the cognition of consumers’
needs. Parents’ as consumers’ needs and wishes for service are rather
individual and so not always are foreseen in advance. They depend on the
strategy of institution, programmers of education, the financial tariffs of
service and other factors which are significant for service quality. The state
of work quality of educational institution, its analysis intensify the feedback
among the participants of education process, increases their personal
responsibility for service quality, helps them to conceive the institution of
pre-school education as flexible and open to changes organization. The
assessment of service quality is the comparison of its features with consumer’s
needs and expectations. Only in this way, in her opinion, any organization
can compete with others similar to it.
The empirical research was conducted in the region of western
Lithuania (in the districts of Klaipėda, Telšiai, and Tauragė), in 2013- 2014.
In the quantitative research (questionnaire) the group of service providers
of educational organization took part. The group consisted of 130
heads of institutions and 340 teachers as well as the group of service consumers:
400 parents, whose children attend the institutions of educational
organization. In total, 870 respondents who were randomly selected were
questioned.