Abstract:

In the engineering of academic work, significant changes have occurred under the influence of the complete transfer of the educational process to the online mode due to the COVID-19 pandemic. By the elements of the labour system of higher school, the authors mean the following interacting subsystems: man (academic staff), technology (information technology), knowledge and environment. Each of these subsystems has undergone changes, resulting in a transformation of their interaction. In the presented study, academics are viewed as users and as elements of the labour system. In the first case, the user is the recipient of the labour system functioning results, in the second case, is the operator performing the specified system functions. The monitoring of changes in the interaction of the studied subsystems was carried out by sociological survey of academic personnel of the Russian federal university. The survey was conducted in two stages: the first – in December 2019, the second – in February 2021. The questionnaire was refined taking into account the pandemic period realities. A comparative analysis of the survey results of different stages was carried out by the authors taking into account the gender specific of perception and assessment of the current transformation processes of the university labour system. The study contributes to the understanding of the dynamic processes of the work system life cycle, the key element of which is the employee. An important focus of the research is the assessment of the physical and psychosocial well-being of academic staff under a high level of tension of the working environment.

Keywords:

Labour system, interacting subsystems, academic staff, sociological survey, comparative analysis, physical and psychosocial well-being.