Проблемы теории и практики управления

Boosting the Creativity of Russian Student Community during the Period of Studies

Chernikovskaya Marina

The management model of students' creativity development is substantiated. Means, methods and techniques are proposed which impact on the creativity in the education environment of an institution of higher learning.

Crowdstaffing in a Company: Tools and Specificity of Practicing

Dolzhenko Ruslan

The article considers the chances of using crowd technologies in personnel management, describes their practical use in national companies. The content of crowdstaffing — the most important crowd technology searching for candidates in the Internet — is reviewed. Approaches are detailed as to how to arrange crowdstaffing in a company.

Defining the Concept of Abilities within the Structure of Management Knowledge

Dvinskikh Darya

The author argues that the category of organizational abilities as element of managerial knowledge and organizational environment should be radically rethought. She offers a systematic understanding of the logic of detaching abilities at the background of organizational activity space, and proposes her own vision of the concept of abilities.

Ensuring Economic Security of the Republic of Uzbekistan under International Integration

Ziyadullaev Ulugbek

The author describes methods and mechanisms applied to ensure economic security of the Republic of Uzbekistan when attracting and using funds extended by international financial institutions. Crucial tools are mastered to raise the efficiency and attractiveness of foreign borrowings aimed at ensuring the country's national security.

Evaluating Construction Companies: Specificity of Applying Cash Flow Discounting Method

Simionova Nina

The paper highlights the chances and specificity of applying the income approach method in construction business evaluation. It deals also with issues related to income forecasting and terminal value determination.

Evaluation of Russian Interregional Differentiation Based on the Analysis of Economic Security Indicators

Mityakov Sergei, Mityakov Evgeni

The paper offers an indicative system of regional economic security which includes thirty indicators grouped by ten projections. Proceeding from the system of indicators developed, interregional differentiation levels in various economic parameters are analyzed.

Financial Support for Social Policy in the Russian Federation in 2008–2020

Balynin Igor

The results of analyzing the financial support for social policy in the Russian Federation in 2008–2020 are presented. Key directions and priorities of social policy at federal, regional and local levels are identified. The author differentiates between two concepts: that of 'social policy' and that of 'social services'.

Knowledge Management Model: Conceptual Foundation

Vorobyov Anatoli

The need for a coherent transition from budgeting to strategic planning and to knowledge management model is shown. The conceptual foundation of strategic planning and knowledge management model is unfolded.

Lean Production Concept: Specificity of Its Application in National and Foreign Enterprises

Safronova Xenia

The specificity of the lean production concept (LPC) in foreign and Russian enterprises is analyzed. The results of studying LPC practice in Russia classified by area, sector and age are mirrored.

Methodology of Cluster Efficiency Analysis

Nazarova Varvara

The author gives her definition of cluster efficiency and lists the main principles of its assessment. Evaluation methods of cluster efficiency are investigated depending on the evaluation aim. On the basis of the analysis made, a set of potentially practicable methods is developed.

Motivation of Micro-Sized Business Development through Citizens'' Individual Needs

Gunchenkova Alexandra

The author proposes an approach to micro-sized business as a special type of economic activity realized by a single citizen. The taxpayer's burden and his duties to the state are discussed, eventual premises for official registration avoidance are unveiled.

Optimal Choice of Criteria for University Rating

Petrosyants Daniel, Svetsova Anastasia

Problems linked with optimizing a comprehensive evaluation of universities by means of international and national ratings are investigated. Attention is focused on the choice of criteria (indicators), which help compile ranked lists of universities.

Structural Gaps in State Strategic Planning System

Boyko Alexei

The author unveils the need to first conceptually and then also legally refine the organizational structure of the planning system as a whole and, on its basis, detail the functional mechanisms. A conceptual scheme for strategic planning in the RF is advanced.

The New Technological Mode Formation as Key Mechanism of Russian Economic Efficiency

Okorokov Vasily, Okorokov Roman

The authors present their classification of parameters used, over the long history of human community development, in classical types of economic systems and their technological modes. The need is substantiated for a new systemic industrialization and for shaping the technological mode of information economy.

The Role of Advanced Production Technologies in the Innovative Development of Russia''s Regions

Erokhina Elena

Problems related to implementing advanced technologies in RF federal districts and regions are addressed. The impact of these technologies on labour productivity growth, national economy efficiency and innovative development of the regions is researched.

The Specificity of Social Culture and Management Interaction

Podgorny Vladimir

Specific features of social economy as one of the factors contributing to efficient management of social evolution of society are discussed. The specificity of interaction between economic and political cultures as components of social culture is addressed as well as the results the impact of this interaction produces on the arrangement and policy of social development management of society.

University Brands and School of Thought Development

Chaplygin Alexei, Lopatnikov Alexander

It is shown that the notion of brand in higher education is practically identical with the notion of school of thought. Developing the latter is where the Russian universities aspiring to increase the value of their brands should concentrate their efforts, the authors argue.