Methods of improving personnel management at enterprise as factor of labor efficiency and productivity

The paper highlights the relevance of increasing the labor efficiency of personnel at the enterprise level. The level of labor productivity at Russian industrial enterprises is found several times lower than at the enterprises in the United States of America. There has been carried out a review of modern Russian scientific and methodological literature to evaluate the effectiveness of the personnel management systems. A significant number of methodological tools for assessing and improving the personnel management system of the enterprise have been identified. At the same time, there are no studies of methods assessing the personnel management systems ensuring the key properties of the personnel, which is especially important for the survival, increase of competitiveness and enterprise development in a highly competitive innovation environment. There has been presented the methodical approach to the assessment and improvement of the personnel management system of the enterprise as a factor in increasing the productivity and efficiency of labor. The criteria and indicators for assessing the personnel management system of the enterprise are developed. The key properties of the personnel management system are the goal-directedness of the personnel’s activities, the level of motivation to achieve the goals of the enterprise, the coordination of staff interaction, the correspondence of the quantity and quality of personnel to the requirements for the performance of labor functions and the goals of the enterprise, and the quality of personnel labor management. The author’s approach to assessing the type of social and labor relations of staff based on the ratio of values, interests, coordination of interaction and socio-psychological working conditions is formulated. There has been revealed an empirical dependence of the impact of the state of the personnel management system on performance indicators, personnel labor productivity, as well as the dynamics of the enterprise. Based on the studies, a direct empirical dependence of personnel performance factors on the integral indicator of the state of the personnel management system was established. The results of testing methodological recommendations on improving the personnel management system at the enterprise using the author's approach are presented.