MANAGEMENT OF IMPLEMENTATION OF THE PURPOSE OF CHILDREN’S SOCIALISATION CENTRES

Children's socialisation centres that have been operating since 2008 execute a double mission, i.e. they provide comprehensive education and ensure supervision as well as re-socialisation of delinquent juveniles. High-quality implementation of the integrated mission of children's socialization centres is mostly determined by strategic management of these institutions. Results of the survey of administration representatives and other staff of children's socialization centres carried out from November 2012 through February 2013 revealed that all groups' employees of children's socialization centres positively assessed strategic management of their institutions and also acknowledged the demand for its perfection. Statistically significant differences in assessment of strategic management of children's socialization centres and the need for its improvement in separate groups of respondents have been found out. The most visible differences concerning assessment of strategic management of children's socialization centres have been estimated among representatives of administrative staff and class tutors that took part in the survey. Respondents' opinions mostly differed concerning the need to improve the incentive system for staff, the changes in the objective policy concerning staff selection and constant care of the administration about social and psychological safety of employees. It has been found out that respondents' socio-demographic variables (sex, age, duration of employment, work experience in other institutions) make a low statistically significant impact on assessment of the need for strategic management of children's socialization centres and its improvement.