Flexible operation modes as an anti-crisis technology of industrial enterprise personnel management

Abstract

Purpose. To study government stakeholder groups, company management and employees in the conditions of introducing flextime at industrial enterprises. Methods. Organizational forms of flexible employment introduction are analyzed in Western and Russian personnel management practices. Also, the author provides statistical data of applying flexible modes of operation under economic crisis in the RF regions and also monitoring the part-time employment mode in the Sverdlovsk region; the analysis of the personnel behavioral strategies is based on the results of the author's sociological survey of employees of industrial enterprises of the Sverdlovsk region. Results. Distinctive features are revealed of the Russian experience of using flexible modes of operation acting as dampener which facilitates the negative impact of the economic crisis at labor market. Changes in personnel management bringing about introduction of flexitime and also behavioral strategies which help employees to keep a job under crisis and threat of layouts are identified. Scientific novelty. Scientific novelty lies in researching behavioral strategies of employers and employees of industrial enterprises in the situation of the forced introduction of flexitime. The article reveals the individual behavior strategies dependence on the status and financial situation of industrial enterprises employees under flexible employment.