Innovative Dualism in Improving the Criteria for Assessing Human Potential to Achieve Personnel Security

Innovative Dualism in Improving the Criteria for Assessing Human Potential to Achieve Personnel Security

Tatiana Ivanova, Nikolay Ivanov
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-8189-6.ch011
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Abstract

The economy today is in a state of permanent crisis, which is aggravated by epidemiological situations. In such a situation, it becomes urgent to resolve the problems that have arisen without losing independence and the pace of economic development. Tools that have been successful in all periods of past crises do not work today. It is advisable in such conditions to develop and form a scientific and methodological base and model tools for assessing the boundaries of economic stability in order to make effective management decisions to ensure the strategic stability and security of the economy in the face of crises and technological and social shocks.
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A review of scientific literature allows us to assert that the transition from hierarchical structures to turquoise organizations does not yet indicate a complete rejection of the centralization of some management functions, especially given that the main actor in management is a person who is not able to fully focus on self-organization. This is confirmed by the data of numerous empirical studies of the assessment of human potential as the main element of the reproduction process in the context of digitalization.

According to scientists, the classical theories, indicating to management both the operational goal and the ways to achieve it, are now outdated. Any instrument has a limit of its capabilities, but the economy in new conditions requires solving the problem of increasing the efficiency of the organization, considered in this case as a subject of economic activity. In this regard, when the technocratic approaches of the Taylor school and the administrative school have reached their limit, new reserves for increasing the effectiveness of the organization become in demand. The human factor (the school of human relations) was objectively among such reserves. Later, new, even more effective levers of influence on the object of management were in demand: the national factor (“Japanese miracle”, Western European management, etc.), robotization, computerization of production, etc. The entire history of management is a history of continuous searches for more and more effective ways to influence the object of management in the organization. In recent years, the attention of scientists from various fields of knowledge, including management, has been turned to synergetics. A notable result obtained in this direction was the book by E. Campbell and K. Summers Lachs “Strategic Synergy” (Campbell & Summers Lachs, 2004). The analysis of numerous publications allows us to conclude that synergetics should be considered as a meta-science that has pronounced supra-disciplinary and transdisciplinary properties. The predecessors of synergetics as a meta-science were tektology and cybernetics. Synergetics completes the formation of a new, non-deterministic picture of the world, the beginning of which was laid by the theory of relativity, quantum mechanics, and nonlinear dynamics. The influence of synergetics on management theory in general, and on management in particular, is becoming more and more noticeable. Synergetics is currently being freed from conjunctural layers, ceases to be a fashion in near-scientific circles and becomes not only an integral part, but also the basis of the intellectual apparatus of theorists and practicing managers. In any case, this trend has been identified and consolidated (Ivanova & Prikhodko, 2005).

Key Terms in this Chapter

Mother-of-Pearl Enterprises: Organizations that show increased attention to a creative person, using the advantages of digitalization.

Theory of Spiral Dynamics: The development of the socio-economic system occurs discretely, by moving from one level to another, depending on changes in the dominant value system in society.

Network Organizations: Horizontally structured organizations based on the relevance of the roles played by the parties in the structure.

Strategic Ambidexterity: Capacity of an organization to balance between alternative strategies.

Hierarchical Organizations: Organizations with pyramid-like structures where one individual is in charge of the company with one or more subordinates subsequently under each other.

Turquoise Organizations: Evolutionary organizations which meet the needs of modern people and provide employees with more freedom and opportunities to unleash human creative potential.

Digitalization: Digital transformation of an economy, i.e., enabling or improving processes by leveraging digital technologies and digitized data.

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