The Possibilities of the Optimization of Managing Organizations of Education Sector

The article focuses on the analysis of the current state and determinants influencing the way of management of directly managed organizations of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Sport of the Slovak Republic. Simultaneously, the article points out the possibilities of optimization of the management of directly managed organizations within the founding competence of the Ministry of Education, Science, Research, and Sport of the Slovak Republic resulting from the implemented analysis. The aim of the article is to clarify the current state and determinants affecting it and, based on the analysis, to point out the possibilities of effective optimization of the management of this type of organizations. Within the processing of the information, several methods of analyzing the materials, data, and legislative documents are applied, as well as practical knowledge and experiences from the particular government department. The main findings of the article are budgetary planning is problematic, organizations use several management tools independently of each other, the effectiveness of which is questionable, and there is much space for the application of optimization measures that may streamline the management of organizations and reduce the budgetary burden. A set of management optimization possibilities applicable to this specific type of organizations in a given environment is one of the main outputs of this article.