Забезпечення професійної працездатності персоналу в умовах нової соціоекономічної реальності

Abstract

The essence and factors of professional work capacity, as well as its role in ensuring high job performance, are analyzed. The main task of the study was to analyze factors influencing the working capacity of modern employees; to identify the level of their satisfaction with the conditions and management of work; and to substantiate the ways to improve work capacity at enterprises, taking into account current threats caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. Based on the survey, the satisfaction level of employees at Ukrainian enterprises as for the existing measures aimed at ensuring and maintaining the work capacity of staff at the workplace, e.g. working conditions and recreation and other measures, is analyzed. The subjective fatigue among employees has been assessed, revealing the absence of a system for monitoring the working capacity and general physical and mental state of employees at enterprises, which makes it impossible to introduce qualitative measures to maintain and improve working capacity and eliminate the effects of fatigue. The influence of the COVID-19 pandemic on the conditions and management of work at enterprises, on the employee’s working capacity and their sense of physical and psychological well-being have been identified. Based on the study, the main areas for improving the work capacity of staff at the workplace in the new socio-economic conditions, which would reflect the expectations and needs of employees, are systematized. Priority measures that should be implemented at enterprises to maintain and improve the professional work capacity of staff include the following: clear regulation of job responsibilities and rational distribution of workload among all workflow participants; reduction of the hazardous effect of working conditions on human body; protection of employees from the already existing and potential hazards; compensation of excessive workload by various financial incentives, intangible incentives, improvement of working conditions and recreation; taking into account employees’ individual attributes when planning workload; organization of psychological assistance and counseling for staff members, training sessions on Time-management and Team-building, improvement of social and psychological climate.