Abstract:

The article analyzes the content of the concept "innovative personality" of the student from the perspective of its essential characteristics, as well as the impact of the organizational culture of Russian universities on the development of the concept mentioned above. The authors distinguish such basic personality traits of students of this type as: - need for change, skill to get away from the power of traditions, defining development points and social mechanisms appropriate to them; - presence of creativity as a personal quality and creative way of thinking; - ability to find ideas and opportunities for their optimal implementation; - a systematic and prognostic approach to the selection and organization of innovations; - ability to concentrate in a state of uncertainty and define the acceptable degree of risk; - readiness to overcome constantly appearing obstacles; - developed ability to reflection and introspection. The basis for determining the organizational culture of universities was the organizational culture diagnostics method - the OCAI by C. Cameron and R. Quinn. The typology underlying the method identifies four types of culture (or directions of its development) - clan, hierarchical (bureaucratic), market and adhocratic: as a rule, all four types are represented in an organization to varying degrees, but there is always a dominant type. In the most general form, the common profile of the organizational culture of the university, which contributes to the formation of the innovative personality of students, can be represented in the form of a pyramid based on a clan type culture that is consistently supplemented by an adhocratic, market, and then hierarchical culture. Nevertheless, the results of a secondary analysis of self-diagnosis studies of Russian universities, as a rule, show the dominance of the hierarchical (bureaucratic) culture type and the preference for the clan culture type, which does not contribute to the formation of an innovative personality among students. However, the universities` leadership aims at the development of elements of adhocratic and market types.

Keywords:

Innovative personality, organizational culture of the university, studentship, consciousness, values.