Vol. 37 No. 1 (2019)

Purpose. To explore the transformation of managerial relationship between the person and the state within the system of capital repairs. Methods. Systematic analysis of managerial logic of public policy in privatization sphere and housing capital repair was used. Results. Studying the basics of the reforms in the sphere of the utilities sector in the RF, the stages of the state policy changes within it were defined. The authors analyzed the stages of the state policy changes in relation to capital repairs and reviewed the person’s role and his abilities to influence that policy. Scientific novelty. Scientific novelty consists in the study of managerial logic of changes in the field of housing and communal services on the part of consumers. The impact of proprietors of habitation on the changes in the logic of reforms is assessed.

Analyzing the Annual Report on the results of the activities of the business ombudsman in the Sverdlovsk Region in 2017, the author makes conclusions on the quality of the management activities of the authorities supporting small and medium-sized businesses in the Sverdlovsk region. Both clear and hidden barriers to the development of small and medium businesses are noted. A number of measures to improve the activities of the Ombudsman’s office, other structures supporting and protecting small and medium-sized businesses in the Sverdlovsk region are proposed. Purpose. To analyze current problems of small and medium enterprises in the Sverdlovsk region. Methods Research methods include a complex of general scientific methods, such as analysis, comparison, system-structural method; systematization of research data obtained by various authors, their synthesis. Results. The author analyzed the annual report on the results of the activities of the business ombudsman in the Sverdlovsk Region in 2017. Some conclusions were made about the state of the business environment in the region and the need for certain changes in the system of measures to support and protect small and medium-sized businesses in the Sverdlovsk region. Scientific novelty. A number of measures were proposed to improve the activities of structures that provided support and protection for small and medium-sized businesses in the Sverdlovsk region.

Having many children in the context of a new wave of industrialization taking place is a factor influencing the sustainable development of society. Nevertheless, the attitude towards large families, the assessment of the significance of this phenomenon in the aspect of regulating social relations are ambiguous, which continues to attract the attention of researchers from various branches of science. Purpose. To assess the changes occurring in the phenomenon of large families in Russia on the basis of a sociological analysis. Methods. Methods used by the authors in their work are document analysis, statistical data analysis, secondary data analysis (including the Rosstat and WCIOM study). Results. The authors suggest that having many children is a prevailing multidimensional phenomenon that is available for examination and observation by various methods, but there is no extended statistical monitoring of the phenomenon of large children at the federal and regional levels in Russia, while we are faced with a complex and illogical methodology of statistical observation. The second research problem is the lack of a common understanding of the term “large families” both in theoretical sources and in legal documents that are adequate to the conditions of time and circumstances. In the Russian Federation at present, the number of large families is statistically insignificant, on average; the number of children in such a family is 3.3 children. Large families face a number of significant problems that hinder the growth of large families: parental employment (unemployment for women with three or more children is 23.7%), financial situation of the family (income and cost structure), housing and maintenance, etc. The attitude of Russians towards large families is also becoming a problem public opinion is often not in favor of such a family. The solution to the problems of large families and the steady growth of the importance of large families as a reality phenomenon can be a balanced policy implemented by consolidated groups, authorities and public structures, aimed at shaping the attitudes of youth in young people, supporting family births and diverse support for real large families.

This article is devoted to the issues of implementation of the public family policy in Russia against the background of transformation and the institution of the family and family values in general, and to implementation methods of the public family policy in one of the territorial subjects of the Russian Federation Stavropol Region. The analysis of experience of this subject seems expedient to the authors as the measures carried out in the region include not only overcoming negative consequences of deinstitutionalization of family, but also prevention of socially dangerous behavior, deviant behavior concerning family. Besides, the experiment of Stavropol Region is indicative concerning the attitude towards families having disabled children: there is patronage, mobile services and attracted subordinated public organizations. As a result, positive trends, which became possible only as a complex interaction between public authorities, the subordinated organizations and civil society.

Purpose. To form of a mathematical model of information support of public events management processes in the concept of situational management. The relevance of the study is due to the specificity of management processes of public events under severe restrictions and requirements for human and material resources. Traditional management approaches, despite the use of information systems developed for them, increase the burden on the decision maker and make the management system cumbersome, since a large number of people are involved in providing public events. Methods. The factual basis of the study was interview materials, project documentation, reporting, statistical and analytical data from public events with situational management, the number of participants in which ranged from 20 to 2000. The methodological basis of the study was observations of the processes on public events held in Russia and abroad from 2014 to 2018, their comparison, interviewing of event organizers, analysis of the collected information and its formalization, mapping in the form of a mathematical model. These studies were conducted at the following events: II, III, IV, V Festivals of military history reconstruction “Pole Boya” 2014-2017; military historical reconstructions in the village of Dunino, Islavskoe, Borodino from 2014 to 2017, as well as the International Air Show Compiègne Aéro Classic 2016. Results. The advantage of situational management over the traditional management approach is demonstrated, the main shortcomings of the standard classes of information management systems are revealed, which consist in the need to involve the management subject for decision-making at the operational management level. The necessity of creating an information system based on the concept of situational management is proved, and the possibility of using a specific mathematical apparatus in its basis is substantiated. Conclusion. The goal of the research, set by the author in the introduction, has been achieved, namely, a mathematical model of information support for the processes of public events management in the concept of situational management has been formed. The proposed mathematical model can be a conceptual basis for the operation of information systems that provide digitalization of management at any public events, where the concept of situational management is used as the main methodology. In the future, on the basis of this model, it is assumed to use algorithmization and technical design of the information system to solve the described problem. The proposed model can be supplemented and specified in a subsequent study of the problem.

Purpose. To disclose the concept of cryptocurrencies, consider the cost indicators and features of investing in electronic money, consider institutional and legal support of cryptocurrencies, as well as ways to increase the attractiveness of investing in electronic money, consider the problems of the world economy associated with cryptocurrencies. Subject of research. The history of the emergence and development of cryptocurrencies, as well as the opportunities provided by electronic payment systems. Methods. Analysis of literature, analysis of legal documentation, as well as the study and synthesis of domestic and foreign practice of financial resources and articles. Results. Practical significance of the scientific article is due to the fact that, despite the foreign experience in the field of cryptocurrency relations, for our country it is still a new direction that can help in solving the problems of investment and legal regulation of non-Fiat electronic money. Scientific novelty. Long-term positive and negative spheres of influence of cryptocurrencies on the world economy are revealed. The specificity of the impact of investment programs on the development of cryptocurrencies and the world economy as a whole.

Purpose. To consider various aspects of a problem of risk management in an entrepreneurial activity. To study instruments of risk management of an entrepreneurial activity. To analyse the use of instruments of risk management of an entrepreneurial activity. Methods. In the article, risk management is considered with the help of systematic and process approaches. Risk management process is represented as a complex in which the procedures are marked out. Various methods and actions for risk prediction and possible ways of affecting it are studied. Results. Tools and methodology for business risk management are studied. Risk management experience at the enterprise is analysed. Various aspects of formation of a risk management system of the enterprise are given. Methods of quantitative and high-quality risk analysis of an entrepreneurial activity are considered. Implementation problems of these methods are revealed. Scientific novelty. The author formulated the business principles that are to be observed in risk management. Being guided by the requirements of modern economy, the basic rules of risk management are proposed.

Subject. The budgetary institutions financing mechanism. Purpose. To analyse the budgetary institutions financing mechanism as a tool to ensure budgetary security of the state, including the current legislation governing the actions of customers and performers in the field of public procurement. Methods. In the process of research the methods of comparative analysis, generalization, classification, system and structural approaches were used. The information base of the study includes data of the Information portal of public procurement, as well as information published in national publications. Results. In the process of the study, the analysis of the main legal documents regulating the actions of customers and performers in the field of public procurement was conducted; the results of the control measures in respect of the competition with limited participation were introduced. The analysis identified and systematized the main problems of the legislation and proposed a number of measures to improve the efficiency of a financial support mechanism for budgetary institutions providing public services. Conclusions. Efficient funding of budgetary organisations is an essential term for national budgetary security. The authors conclude that it is necessary to use efficient and qualititative financial methods as a tool to guarantee national budgetary safety, in particular, developing regulations for customers and sellers’ actions in the field of state purchases and targeted consumers subsidies.

Purpose. To analyse the methodology for maturity assessment of the project activity organization in the executive authorities and to develop recommendations to improve its effectiveness. Methods. As the main authors used a systematic approach, used the methods of comparative analysis, comparison, analogy and generalization. Results. The main result of this theoretical and methodical research is the analysis of the methodology of the maturity assessment of the project activity organization in the executive authorities in Russia, including the level of regions. The authors propose concrete steps, justifying their need, to improve the efficiency of project management in the country, based on their main areas of assessment for their implementation and application. The need to increase the transparency of the methodology is determined by the need to develop project management at the municipal level. Scientific novelty. The authors analyzed the main models for maturity assessment of the project activity organization in the executive authorities, identified the advantages and disadvantages of using for public authorities and their activities in the field of project management, proposed the main directions of transformation of the methodology to increase its efficiency and further extrapolation to the municipal level.

Purpose. The article is devoted to the analysis of the economic foundations of organizational vandalism and the assessment of the economic risks of this phenomenon. The article summarizes the experience of studying the risks of organizational and vandal behavior, assesses the current state of the enterprise management system from the standpoint of the existence of risk factors of organizational vandalism in it (using the example of one of the industrial enterprises in Ekaterinburg). Methods The analysis of literary sources, the empirical analysis of industrial enterprises and the content analysis of documents served as basic research methods. Results and practical significance. A mechanism has been formulated for assessing the risks of the occurrence of events of organizational-vandal behavior of employees of companies (enterprises and organizations). Scientific novelty. The article proposed a methodological toolkit for analyzing and preventing possible vandal actions of personnel. The proposed mechanism will significantly reduce the transaction costs of preventing and combating the consequences of organizational vandalism. Financing. The article was supported by the RFBR grant № 17-06-00819: Model of organizational vandalism of staff: moderators, environmental predictors and prevention methods.

Purpose. Determination of effective forms of investment attraction in the development of electricity supply as one of the most important infrastructure sectors. Methods. The article examines the scientific and practical literature, regulatory and Internet sources on the subject under consideration. Comparison, statistical analysis and expert judgement methods were used. Results and practical significance. The authors highlight the significant potential of public-private partnership in Russia as one of the key mechanisms for ensuring service quality growth in the electricity supply industry. Directions for development and modernization of the analyzed infrastructure sector using such partnership are defined, including the disclosure of effective forms of capital attraction from investors and creditors. Scientific novelty. Based on a sample of concession projects tender documentation in electricity supply sector, relevant measures for improving the methodology of selection of private investors were proposed, including the need for increasing the relevance of technological and industry-specific qualification criteria.

Purpose. To carry out a critical analysis and gain understanding of the specific properties of the service as a form of the produced goods in order to conceptualize public electronic services. Methods. Interpretative approach; interdisciplinary approach; method of analysis and synthesis. Scientific novelty. The author conducted a critical analysis and gave a new interpretation of the specific properties of the service as a form of produced goods. Results. A new interpretation and interpretation of the specific properties of the service as a form of the good produced was proposed, which is important in the context of the conceptualization of public electronic services; a strategy for the follow-up research of public electronic services, which is defined as a strategy of inter-variative variation was introduced.

Purpose. Identification of career features of civil and municipal servants at the regional level, development of recommendations on minimizing the influence of factors negatively affecting the implementation of career trajectories. Methods. The study is based on the methods of the theory of personnel management. Theoretical analysis and a sociological method with a sample survey are used for the study. Results and practical significance. The tendencies typical for the career of civil and municipal employees at the regional level are revealed. The prevailing career types of civil and municipal employees are defined. The factors influencing career expectations and the choice of career trajectories by civil and municipal employees are substantiated. The reasons contributing to such negative conditions for the activities of civil and municipal employees as a “glass ceiling”, “career plateau” and a decrease in the level of satisfaction with service have been identified. Recommendations to the authorities on the conditions that contribute to career expectations, design career paths, improvement the efficiency of civil and municipal employees are formulated. Scientific novelty. The authors justify the concept of "career trajectory", "self-efficacy." The factors influencing the polysemy and variability of a career in civil and municipal service are identified and systematized. The influence of the locus of control as a factor having a socio-psychological nature is substantiated. An integrated approach to the career development of civil and municipal employees helps to make a contribution to the development of personnel management.

Purpose. Following the study of the talented youth management practice in the Russian state and municipal service, to determine its nature, evaluate the possibility of analyzing all the risks of applying the exclusive talent management model used abroad in the public service to offer a package of measures to ensure the effective functioning of the exclusive talent management model. Methods. System analysis and general scientific methods were used. Results and practical significance. Using the results of the study, conclusions were drawn about the nature of the Russian personnel management model in terms of working with talented officials, as an inclusive, reasonably proposed set of measures to form an exclusive talent management model in addition to it. Scientific novelty. The author assessed the risk of using an exclusive model for managing young talents, proposed a set of measures aimed at ensuring the effective functioning of talent management. The article will be useful for managers and specialists of state and municipal authorities, theorists and practitioners of civil state and municipal services. JEL classification: Н10, Н59, М38.

Purpose. To analyzing the systems of labor remuneration currently used in the crop production sector; to identify elements in them, the transformation of which must be carried out in order to increase labor efficiency on the basis of motivation, and to substantiate the ways to improve the wage system. Methods. The scientific research uses methods of qualitative analysis. Results and practical importance. The peculiarities of the development of crop production, which influence the payment of labor of the workers of the given industry, are determined; the elements of the system of remuneration are analyzed and deficiencies are found that reduce the motivational effect of premiums. The practical significance of the results of the study is related to the possibility of their use by agricultural organizations in determining bonuses for the employees of the crop production sector by the end of the year. Scientific novelty. Recommendations for improving the system of remuneration in the crop production sector are proposed, which are based on the methodology of determining the bonus to employees of the given industry on the basis of the results of work for the year, taking into account the personal effectiveness of each employee, and aimed at increasing the interest of the personnel in improving the quality and raising the productivity of labor.

This article deals with application of motivation and stimulation methods for middle managers in the effective foreign credit and financial organizations aimed at its reasonable adaptation to the Russian conditions. On the example of 12 companies of the bank sphere, representing different national models of management – American, Japanese and European, which were the first ones seriously addressed to this problem, the author gave a detailed analysis of methods and forms of motivation and stimulation for middle managers. The received data demonstrate that in search of competitiveness, these organizations improve organizational management in all their subjective and objective components optimize a personnel management system in general and a motivation and stimulation function as a key one in particular. Thus, case study of motivation and stimulation methods and forms for middle managers in the selected credit and financial companies will allow us to create an analog model, which can become an orienting point for the Russian credit and financial organizations at a certain stage of development.

In this article, the author considers the current relevance of consulting services in various business fields by way of enhancing a competitive advantage from the perspective of legitimacy and approprietness to the modern market requirements. Relevance of auditing services, problems of subjective and objective behavior towards the team of auditors and the stages of financial audit are reviewed in the paper.

Purpose. To assess procurement and financial standing of companies in the agricultural sector of the Russian economy in a volatile economic environment. Methods. Economic-statistical methods: method of data mapping; method of graphic modeling and groups; retrospective analysis; method of expert evaluations were used. Results. Favorable trends in changes of the property and financial standing of agricultural companies of the country in a volatile economic environment because of the active implementation of the import substitution program are revealed. Conclusions. For long-term maintenance of modernization and increase of efficient functioning of an agrarian economic sector, it is necessary to develop a complex of actions including monitoring of economic entities standing, an assessment of their activity efficiency and implementation maintenance programs of import substitution policy in a volatile economic environment.

Purpose. The article is devoted to the study of such manifestations as claims, complaints, and complaints in hospitality industry Methods. The study of legal framework, the survey of respondents and observation methods were used. Results and scientific novelty. Based on the study of legal literature, analysis of job descriptions, conducting a survey of 50 respondents the author attempts to highlight the most important problem associated with claims, complaints, and complaints in the hospitality industry affecting the competitiveness of accommodation. The proposed algorithms of working with appeals will help hoteliers and restaurateurs to build customer relationships in "difficult" situations.

Purpose. To study the problem of systematization of internal monitoring functions for financial resources in the management of an integrated agro-industrial enterprise. To improve methodological tools of internal auditing of cash flows in the process of agribusiness development aimed at improving the efficiency of working capital and sustainability of agricultural enterprises. Methods. In the study of the system of internal monitoring functions for financial resources in the management of an integrated agro-industrial enterprise, the authors used a systematic approach, methods of analysis, control and analytical procedures to systematize the sequence of the cash flow auditing to get reliable management information. Results. The purpose of methodology development of internal monitoring functions for financial resources is formulated and the tasks of its improvement defining the directions of research in the conditions of reforming of system of management of the integrated agro-industrial formations accounting are defined. The sequence of auditing for monetary operations in the integrated agro-industrial enterprises is developed and the working program content for internal auditing is defined. Scientific novelty. Scientific novelty consists in improvement of methodical tools of cash flows auditing as a form of internal control in the management system of integrated agro-industrial enterprises and substantiation of directions of its development. A sequence and realization of cash flow auditing chart is developed and the auditing procedure at each stage is introduced. The content of the working program, which reveals the directions of the auditing plan, indicating the performers, the period of the auditing procedures and sources of information are proposed.

Purpose. To identify the problems and contradictions of personnel management of the contract system in the field of procurement of goods, activities and services to meet state and municipal requirements, to design tools and ways to solve them. Methods. In the process of the study, the methods of structural, comparative, functional, economic and statistical analysis, the method of system analysis, methods of collecting information, expert-analytical comparison were used. For visual representation of the information, graphic display tools were applied. Results. Based on the analysis of the basic theoretical positions of modern scientific research in the field of development of cognitive management tools, the prospects for their implementation in the contract system adaptation are identified. Using the presented statistical data, discrepancies in the scope of activities of municipal customers were revealed. Scientific novelty. The current trends in the development of personnel policy in the Russian Federation are identified, and the development and implementation of an intellectual system for training municipal customers aimed at minimizing the Dunning-Kruger effect is proposed.

Subject. Corporate project management system (CPMS). Purpose. To identify opportunities for improvement and modernization of corporate project management systems and evaluate implementation efficiency. Methods. The study of a variety of information sources, information analysis, survey, analogy. Results. The main approaches to improve the corporate management system are identified. Scientific novelty. The main steps to the analysis of the efficiency of the corporate project management system are systematized and the optimization of the corporate project management system is proposed.

Purpose. To conduct a study to assess the scope of children's recreation in municipalities and regions for their residents. Methods. The study is based on the quantitative and scoring methods, questioning and interviewing. Results and practical importance. The sphere of children's recreation within the system of supplementary education ensures the development of demographic, investment and general economic indicators, raises the standard of living, both in the region and in the country as a whole. Scientific novelty. The attitude of residents to the system of additional education through the sphere of children's recreation as a factor of attractiveness and an indicator of the quality of life of the population is revealed.

Purpose. The study of the features of innovative development of professional educational organizations from the standpoint of an institutional approach. Methods. The main approaches to the introduction of innovations for professional educational organizations are analyzed. The authors have used a comparison of classical approaches that are appliesd in the study of industrial enterprises. The features of innovative changes at the institutional level of secondary vocational education are revealed. Results. The authors have relied on a theoretical analysis of the fundamentals of the study of innovations, peculiarities of the introduction of innovations at industrial enterprises, scientifically based approaches and expert assessments. Practical experience in the system of secondary vocational education is also takes into account. The authors have showed the specifics of introducing innovations in professional educational organizations. The features are identified at the level of an individual organization and at an institutional level, and key indicators are detected extending the most significant impact on the innovative development of professional educational organizations. Scientific novelty. Scientific novelty is to identify the most significant features of innovation in vocational education.

Purpose. To describe a socio-cultural project to create a communication platform between graduates of creative universities and employers in the field of culture. For implementation of the project, a sociological study of students from creative universities was conducted. The issue of higher education relevance in a sphere of culture is important in connection with the transformation of both social spheres. Ekaterinburg cultural institutions urgently need highly qualified personnel, as the production of high-quality content of such organisations is directly related to the people who work there. Difficulties of employment are often due to the fact that the requirements of university graduates to the size of their wages are too high, while the level of qualifications acquired at the university and the accumulated professional experience do not meet the needs of employers. This contradiction became the basis of the project. To solve this problem, it is necessary to analyze the current situation in the labor market in the sphere of culture of a large city and to determine the points of contact between a potential employer and a graduate.