Organizational Structures of the Internal Quality Assurance System Management: Implementation Features in Military Higher Educational Institutions

Today, Ukrainian universities continue to develop internal quality assurance systems, in particular, they form and improve appropriate institutional structures. The different types of organizational management structures of internal quality assurance system in higher education institutions of Ukraine are highlighted in the article. Their features in military higher education institutions are identified. It is determined that: 1) the most successful and widespread management structure of internal quality assurance system in Ukrainian universities is matrix; 2) the main functions of the quality management unit (or structure) are design (planning and organization), coordination, monitoring (control), motivation; 3) the type of organizational structure of the internal quality assurance system is determined by the mission and strategy of the higher education institution, the distribution of management functions among its subjects, the number of main educational units (faculties, institutes). Ten types of organizational structures of internal quality assurance system and a few their derivatives have been allocated. In military higher education institutions, which are characterized by a linear-functional structure of the organization of relationships with a high level of hierarchy, a small and medium number of educational units, the functions of quality management are mainly assigned to the educational and methodological unit, its structural units, or distributed among all structural units and collegial bodies. At the same time, the military higher educational institutions of Ukraine, under the influence of external factors and due to the gradual formation of an academic culture of quality, are transforming their management structures, creating a particular structural unit for quality management.