Culture, synergy and balance of Northern Russia’s strategic manage-ment processes

Strategic management of processes of Arctic and Northern Russia development is carried out under current politico-managerial relationship in the country. It is closely connected with development of subservient culture of bureaucracy and necessity of democratization of management system based on culture of participation, synergy, creation of balanced system of consideration for society, based on initiative, democracy and legitimacy.

Bureaucracy, managerial culture

Strategy of Russian Federation Arctic zone development and national security protection for the period up to 2020, programs of territorial development are to a large extent oriented to development of regional community and their adaptation to changing state goals and challenges of exploitation of the North (RFAZ — part of Northern Russia). Centrally established system of state management leads to inconspicuous involvement of government institution in organization of strategic state policy in Northern Russia [1]. It leads to inconspicuous concernment in efficiency of socio-political programs of Russian Arctic zone in northern regions of Russia strategic development realization.

It is worth noticing that high degree of political management centralization results in consolidation in the country of administrative-bureaucratic management system [2]. This system appears in development of mechanisms of subordinative management, reduction of strategic management value, group methods of management decision making and local initiatives. As a result of consolidation of political management subordinative system appeared development of subservient culture of bureaucratic management. This culture as a pattern of bureaucracy — is an accepted behavior model [3], settled in both strategic management and in innovation and scientific spheres. It at the same time decreased the value of initiative and creativity and increased formalism in problems of innovation development of Northern regions enlisted in entities of RFAZ and in the country as a whole. The pointed problem nowadays must be overviewed as an insider threat of Russian system of democratic management and civil society development together with corruption, economic depression and low social security system of country’s population.

An important consequence of formalization of innovation programs development should be considered reduction of communication, integrative and synergetic qualities and characteristics of subsystems of common strategic management system. In particular, mechanisms of intelligibility and aggregation of interests by Arctic population in the process of strengthening of administrative-bureaucratic methods and management culture [4]. As a result of the process of consolidation of subservient management culture became reduction of connecting mechanisms of bureaucratic branches and their efficiency value. As a basis of such a management becomes fear [5; 6; 7]. It is evident, that by pointed reasons of management innovation and scientific spheres will not be able to function and develop, which could lead to reduction of its efficiency.

Grade of the synergy and centeredness of management systems

By the pointed specifics of management, namely existing subordinative-bureaucratic model, subsystems of state management institutes should be overviewed as independent systems weakly interacting with each other, which could lead to reduction of adoption of the whole system of Northern Russia strategic management functioning. When appreciating the level of management systems’ synergy, based on cultures of participation or subservient, their substantial controversies should be noticed (view table 1):

Table 1

Level of interaction synergy of management system elements in dependence to the type of management culture

Modern systems of interregional political interaction in the Northern Russia and functional interaction of strategic planning establishments nowadays have no obliged mechanisms of joint regional interconnection which in conditions of its «close» activity lead to lost of integrative potential in problems of prospective development of Arctic territories and population. Success of the system of strategic management development in the region is predicated upon balanced functioning and cooperation of number of elements.

For increase of the system structural parts it is important to develop democratic methods of management on federal and regional levels, improve quality of communication mechanisms and interaction between subsystems of strategic management institutions.

Important problem of strategic management system efficiency, including RFAZ, is considered to be negative opportunity of its «conservation» in conditions of socio-political crisis, which could lead to its inability to educe, analyze and react to real inside and outside challenges and threats, including sanctions against Russia. To prevent this threat democratic mechanisms, oriented on initiative, creativity, legitimacy, sociability and clarity, must become the base for strategic management system.

Picture 1. Model of a balanced system of Arctic process development strategic management (author’s view) URL:

Conclusion

It is worth noticing that main foreign principle of strategic management is considered to be the widening of living space of the territory [8], and domestic political principle must become principle of creation and support of balanced system of national interests consideration of the state, society and person, based on initiative, democracy and legitimacy; creation of effective management system based on culture of participation, synergy, activity of persons and civil society. Pointed problems in this article are extensively investigated in monographs and other articles of the author.