SOCIO-PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF HR MANAGEMENT IN HIGHER EDUCATION INSTITUTIONS

This article presents the socio-psychological aspects of personnel management at the university. Effective personnel policy is a tool for improving the competitiveness of universities. It is necessary to form a set of requirements for employees in correlation with the university development program. Human resource management is an important link in the university's management system. The main characteristics, prospects and significance of this innovation in organizations are considered. The author notes that in HR management, business processes can be distinguished: personnel planning and marketing, evaluation of its effectiveness based on KPI, employee potential management, professional development, employee motivation. In the personnel policy, it is necessary to use modern digital technologies that provide a system for monitoring key and operational indicators of the university. It explains the need to create an electronic educational service that will contribute to changing the corporate culture and optimizing processes, including such services as digital marketing, research project management, a digital portfolio of teachers, a system for evaluating the activities of teaching staff based on KPI, etc.

“One of My Basic Necessities of Life Is Work. That’s Just Broken Away.”—Explorative Triangulation of Personal and Work-Related Impacts for Supervisors and Disabled Employees in German Social Firms during the COVID-19 Pandemic

Social firms are located on the general labor market and employ 30–50% of severely disabled people. Findings on personal and work-related impacts for employees and supervisors during the COVID-19 pandemic are not yet available and will be investigated in the present study. Using the approach of a method triangulation, focus groups with employees and individual interviews with supervisors of several social firms from the North of Germany were combined and collected in parallel. Between July and November 2020, 16 semi-structured telephone interviews with supervisors and three focus groups with 3–6 employees each working within the same team (14 employees in total) were conducted. Both formats were recorded, transcribed, anonymized, and analyzed by using Mayring’s qualitative content analysis. Because a large proportion of the employees and supervisors interviewed worked in the gastronomy sector, they were particularly affected by the “restriction of social contacts” beginning in March 2020. Hygiene and distance regulations were implemented and personnel planning and distribution of work were adapted. Challenges were raised for employees with disabilities due to the implementation of hygiene and distance regulations, a sudden loss of work, lacking routines, additional work, a lack of movement, social contacts and financial challenges. Both employees and supervisors reported fears of infection, conflicts, additional work and fears of job loss. Additionally, supervisors dealt with less staffing, challenges in detaching from work and a strained economic situation. Overall, new insights were gained into the work-related impacts for employees and supervisors in inclusive workplaces during the current COVID-19 pandemic but further research on health-promoting structures is needed.

One year with the COVID-19 pandemic − Lessons learnt? Intersectoral collaboration measures established during the crisis could benefit capacity and patient flow management in daily clinical practice

PurposeThe COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way hospitals work. Strategies that were detached from the boundaries of departments and responsibilities in the COVID-19 pandemic have proven themselves under extreme conditions and show a beneficial influence on patient flow and resource management as well as on the communication culture. The continuation of closer interdisciplinary and cross-sectoral co-operation in a “new clinical routine” could have a positive impact on personnel concepts, communication strategies, and the management of acute care capacities and patient pathways.Design/methodology/approachThe aim of the paper is to critically discuss the knowledge gained in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic from the various approaches in patient flow and capacity management as well as interdisciplinary co-operation. More recent research has evaluated patient pathway management, personnel planning and communication measures with regard to their effect and practicability for continuation in everyday clinical practice.FindingsPatient flows and acute care capacities can be more efficiently managed by continuing a culture change towards closer interdisciplinary and intersectoral co-operation and technologies that support this with telemedicine functionalities and regional healthcare data interoperability. Together with a bi-directional, more frequent and open communication and feedback culture, it could form a “new clinical routine”.Originality/valueThis paper discusses a holistic approach on the way away from silo thinking towards cross-departmental collaboration.

Who Gets Time Off? Prioritizing Planned, Family Responsibility Leave Requests

This role play focuses on team decision making and is designed for undergraduate and graduate human resource management (HRM) and organizational behavior (OB) courses. It can also support management seminars. Working within Employee Teams, Department Teams, or Manager Teams, students decide which three of five employees will obtain family responsibility leave. For HRM courses, the exercise focuses on interpreting and applying family responsibility leave, which illustrates day-to-day personnel planning. For OB courses, the debriefing centers on comparing decision-making models and discussing how beliefs and attitudes influence decision making; it also supports exchanges about the influence of conflict, domination, and groupthink on team decision making. For both OB and HRM courses, the exercise helps students compare individual and team decisions, discuss the effects of team composition on decision making, and analyze the fairness of their decisions. Instructors can conduct the activity in class or online.

FEATURES OF THE ORGANIZATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF PERSONNEL PLANNING IN SMALL BUSINESS ORGANIZATIONS

В работе автор обращается к актуальным проблемам кадрового планирования в малом бизнесе. Проведён анализ проблем, даны авторские рекомендации по формированию комплексной системы кадрового планирования на предприятиях и организациях малого бизнеса. Они связаны с решением проблем, возникающих в процессе стратегического, оперативного планирования управления персоналом; отсутствием системного подхода к управлению процессами в организации и чёткой взаимосвязи между планированием и получаемыми результатами; отсутствием или минимальным применением инструментария бюджетирования и контроллинга; специфическим отношением к консультированию, привлечению специалистов извне; некорректным применением сбалансированной системы показателей деятельности предприятии и ключевых показателей эффективности персонала (BSC и KPI); планированием потребности в персонале; сложностями с набором и подбором персонала. Статья носит практикоориентированный характер. In this paper the author analyses the current problems of personnel planning in small businesses and makes recommendations on the formation of a comprehensive system of personnel planning at enterprises and small business organizations. They are associated with the solution of problems that arise in the process of strategic, operational planning of personnel management; the lack of a systematic approach to managing processes in the organization and a clear relationship between planning and the results obtained; with the lack or minimal use of budgeting and controlling tools; specific attitude to consulting, attracting specialists from outside; incorrect application of a balanced system of company performance indicators and key personnel performance indicators (BSC and KPI); planning of personnel needs; difficulties with recruitment and selection of personnel. The article is practice-oriented in nature.

Employment Of Temporary Workers And Use Of Overtime To Achieve Volume Flexibility Using Master Production Scheduling: Monetary And Social Implications

Flexibility and in particular volume flexibility is an important topic for industrial manufacturing companies. In this context, the harmonization of the available and required capacity is a central task, especially with increasing fluctuations in customer demand. In classical approaches, this is considered only by the use of additional capacities and there are only a few approaches that combine aspects of personnel planning with production planning. Therefore, this article presents a linear optimization model for master production scheduling that includes aspects of personnel requirements planning. It is used to investigate different strategies for the use of overtime and temporary workers in order to achieve different levels of volume flexibility. With regard to the monetary and social impacts, the results indicate that overtime has a stronger influence to achieve volume flexibility than the use of temporary workers. However, both are affected by substantial deficits in human working conditions. But the results also imply a promising potential for improving the social aspects without a significant increase in costs.

Personnel management: personnel policy and personnel planning

The article discusses the provisions related to personnel (human resources) planning and certain aspects of such planning, in particular, planning the organization's staffing needs for a certain prospected period for the organization's development and implementation of its targets and plans. When planning the need for personnel in modern context of digital transformation of the system of public relations, in the conditions of the formation of different areas of life of a worker, the development of his own resource capabilities, in the context of a changing economic situation, organizations of a modern type, carrying out their activities and functioning in a specific area, take into account certain factors affecting and influencing the staffing needs of the organization, in particular: the organizational structure of the organization; the production structure of the organization; the strategy of the organization, the mission of the organization, the functions of the organization; the production process in the organization; the staffing of the organization (actual staffing - attendance and payroll staff ); the qualitative planning of the organization's staffing needs; the quantitative planning of the organization's staffing needs; programs for the release of goods and the provision of services; the degree of mechanization and automation of the organization's production (the use of new technologies in production), including management processes. The organization's activities are always aimed at establishing business relationships with customers, suppliers, competitors, and other persons who are of interest to the organization and, thereby, contribute to the implementation of the business strategy of a modern organization. Strategy is the result of a generalized determination of the long-term course of the development of the organization, the direction and nature of the organization's actions, associated with the choice of a goal, solution of the corresponding problems, formation of a holistic vision and responsible implementation of the business model of the organization's development, and obtainment of the planned result. An organization's strategy is a set of measures aimed at introducing personnel to the goals of the organization and means to achieve the goals in a certain period of the organization's functioning.

Medium-term forecast of the age structure of teachers in secondary schools in the Russian Federation

Introduction. The trend of teaching staff aging in secondary schools is evident in many countries. A negative consequence of this is the growing gap between the personal resources of teachers and the requirements of the profession. Solving the problem of maintaining an optimal age structure involves studying its dynamics and forecasting its development in order to develop measures for personnel planning. The present paper presents the results of the analysis of the current age structure of teachers in the regional context (in the subjects of the Russian Federation) and develops a forecast for its development.The aim of the current research was to present the results of the development of a medium-term (until 2024) forecast of the age structure of teachers in the subjects of the Russian Federation.Methodology and research methods. The research was based on a general scientific methodology applying a systematic approach and the methods of statistical analysis, comparison, generalisation, systematisation, structuring, interpretation, extrapolation, forecasting, and graphical representation of data. The authors analysed the data in official statistics of the Russian Federation and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development. The provisions of normative and legislative documents in the field of strategic regulation of education in the Russian Federation, scientific publications of Russian and foreign researchers in the Scopus, Web of Science, and Science Index databases were investigated as well.Results. The authors identify and highlight the factors, which have the most significant impact on the current state of personnel support for educational activities in the world. The analysis of age-specific teacher characteristics in cross-country comparison is performed. The assessment of age structure of general education teaching personnel in Russia as a whole and at the regional level is carried out. The forecast for its development for the period up to 2024 is developed. Scientific novelty. The conceptual feature of the present study lies in the view of the trends in the development of age cohorts in homogeneous groups. The approach employed allows for increasing the accuracy of forecasting of teacher demand, taking into account the specifics of regional demand.Practical significance. Taking the specifics of the regions into consideration, it will be possible to improve the quality of education. The results of the research can be used by specialists in the course of conducting international research, planning teacher training, and developing measures to enhance the prestige of teaching profession and to stimulate the influx of young personnel to schools at the Federal level and in the regions of the Russian Federation.

ANTI-CORRUPTION ASPECTS AS A REGULATOR OF THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE RAILWAY INDUSTRY

Rail transport plays a significant role in the life of the economic sector of the country. However, the existence of a significant number of negative factors violate the timing of the planned ways of its development. Among them, it is worth paying attention to the slow pace of adaptation of already adopted legislative initiatives, insufficiently substantiated taxation of services provided for the transportation of various goods and passengers (cross-subsidization) and problems arising from the transportation of privileged categories of citizens. Іncrease in the price of services provided, the presence of an inflation component, exchange rate fluctuations, etc. Despite the constant increase in the price of transportation services, the renewal of rolling stock and stationary railway transport is not carried out at a level that would help raise its quality level. This phenomenon is present in the operations of transportation of goods, luggage and passengers. There is a discrepancy between the growth rate of prices for rail transport services and their quality level. Among the additional negative factors should be noted the lack of funds for the renewal of rolling stock and its repair; inefficient financial planning and asset management of divisions; lack of working capital; low level of effective personnel planning and management; the threat of losing highly qualified employees, especially managers, due to reaching retirement age; lack of sufficient motivation for innovation and inventive activity; insufficient qualification of employees; possible resistance of personnel to organizational changes. There are also technical and technological problems. A significant part of the financial resources for the development of the domestic railway does not enter the process of cash flow formation due to the presence of corrupt actions carried out by individual representatives among the responsible persons. Representatives of the top management of the domestic railway must have an effective program of anti-corruption measures, but taking into account the legal framework that is already laid down in existing legislation. This study indicates the exacerbation of existing problems of the domestic railway, which requires immediate intervention at the macroeconomic and microeconomic level, as well as macro-legal and micro-legal level. The article reveals the problems of development of railway enterprises, determines the negative impact of corruption on its development, argues the need for anti-corruption measures that act as regulators of the development of the railway industry in the future. Outlines the content of the principles and substantiates the feasibility of their implementation in accordance with the Draft Law of Ukraine «On the Principles of State Anti-Corruption Policy for 2020–2024». Contains the author's proposal on the content of the conceptual categories «strategic anti-corruption intentions» and «anti-corruption event» and argues the benefits of their use by top management of the railway industry.

Relationship between saving and investment pattern and orientation towards finance among working women in the universities of Saudi Arabia

The main objective of the study was to find out the relationship between saving and investment pattern and orientation towards finance among the working women at the universities of Saudi Arabia. Orientation towards finance (ORTOFIN) is one's attitude towards effectively managing financial activities. This attitude is backed by individual behavior toward financial management. ORTOFIN scale was made as a construct to measure the behavioral dispositions of individuals that are connected to their behavior patterns towards finance and orientations. The data was collected using the ORTOFIN scale which was constructed and used in the European population as well as validated using standard procedures into the Asian population. The present study concentrates on the working women at the Universities of Saudi Arabia. The data collected from 192 women employees of different Universities in Saudi Arabia. This study states there is a significant positive relationship among the saving and investment pattern and orientation towards finance among the working women at the universities of Saudi Arabia. The finding of the study revealed Financial Management Behavior act as a major contributor to the orientation towards finance and the factor of personnel planning is another significant contributor towards ORTOFIN.