THE CONCEPT OF ENSURING THE COMPETITIVENESS OF MANAGERS OF INDUSTRIAL ENTERPRISES

The object of the study is senior employees at all levels of management at industrial enterprises operating in the global innovation economy. The aim of the paper is to develop a concept for ensuring the competitiveness of managers at industrial enterprises, the use of which leads to the harmonization of the socio-economic results of the enterprise and the employee in the global innovation economy. The author applies methods of system and structural-functional analysis, questionnaires, interviews, expert assessments, statistical analysis, production experiments, timekeeping, and photography to record working hours. The research information base includes public reports of leading industrial companies; industry scientific and technical literature; reports and materials of NIIOGR; materials of international, industry, regional conferences, symposia, and seminars; the results of the author’s developments. Based on the results of the paper the author has developed a scientific concept, according to which ensuring the competitiveness of managers of industrial enterprises in the global innovation economy is achieved by increasing the dynamics of development and the efficiency of using their management potential through the formation of an internally competitive environment of the enterprise and congruent external environment. The study concludes that the proposed concept creates a basis for substantiating the criteria, methods, and methodological principles of ensuring the competitiveness of managers of industrial enterprises in the global innovation economy.