IMPROVING THE STIMULATION OF PROFESSIONAL TRAINING FOR STAFF

Abstract

Relevance: the article is devoted to strengthening the stimulation for continuous vocational training of employees in the workplace by the social partners as an effective measure to overcome the economic crisis to ensure economic growth.

Aim: substantiation of measures to develop an effective organizational and economic mechanism to stimulate staff training in a stagnant and crisis economy and create on this basis the preconditions for economic growth.

Methods: general philosophical, general scientific and special research methods, which include methods of comparative analysis, deduction, concretization and formulation of actual issues, principles of development and historicism.

Results: The analysis of labor costs by enterprises of Ukraine in 1999-2018 identified the reasons that constrain the vocational training of staff. The role of social partners in the process of social dialogue in the implementation of continuous training of employees for the introduction of innovations and high technologies is determined. Measures have been formulated to develop the effective organizational and economic mechanism to stimulate employers and employees to strengthen their interest in learning. The role of the state and other social partners in improving the regulatory and legal support for staff development is substantiated. It is proposed to provide greater tax benefits, dotations and subsidies to organizations that feel the need to train employees.

Conclusions: it is proved that economic growth is possible due to the introduction of the latest high technologies, robotics, digitalization and the introduction of continuous training of employees. However, the existing organizational and economic mechanism doesn’t meet these requirements. The proposed mechanism must provide greater tax benefits, dotations and subsidies to businesses for staff training.