HR Ecosystem Development as a Driver of Increasing Management Sustainability

The research substantiates the priority role of HR ecosystem development in improving the sustainability of a contemporary university’s strategic management in the new realities. The research aims to identify key HR risks and substantiate the HR ecosystem development strategy to rank the identified risks. To achieve the research goal, the authors compiled a questionnaire and surveyed employees of two universities—Russian and Chinese. The methodological basis of the research is the innovation-cyclical paradigm of sustainable development, the implementation of which is based on organization management, considering the achievement of economic and social goals. The research result is methodologically substantiated and empirically verified components of HR ecosystem development strategy in the university management system. The scientific novelty of this research consists in the substantiation of the Dematel toolkit and the algorithm of its application for the systemic evaluation of strategic decisions on the HR ecosystem development in the management of an educational organization. The research results have additional value because the tools proposed by the authors identify and rank the key HR risks and justify a strategy for developing an HR ecosystem to minimize the identified risks. The research results can serve as the basis for developing strategic and motivational policy measures aimed at the sustainable development of educational organizations in the digital economy.