Competency-based approach as a basis for controlling the development of innovations in a coal mining enterprise

Abstract

Relevance. To ensure competitiveness in the coal, capital and labor markets, coal mining enterprises need to seek, develop and implement innovations aimed at improving the safety, efficiency and productivity of personnel and production. Existing approaches while working with personnel are aimed at organizing conditions and involving workers in the process of improving production by including responsibility for improving processes, searching for and mastering innovations in their job responsibilities. For the effective implementation of innovative activities, it is required that, when forming the system of management functions for this activity, managers master their relevant competencies. Purpose of work: substantiation of the competency-based approach in controlling the development of innovations in a coal mining enterprise and improvement of the methodology for assessing the conformity of competencies that managers have with the required and performed management functions. Method and methodology of the work. The methods of system and structural-functional analysis, expert assessments were used. Results and scope of their application. The analysis of interpretations of the concept of “competence” is carried out and a definition is formulated, the use of which is advisable in controlling the development of innovations. Scales for assessing the development of competencies and performing management functions, including five levels, are proposed. The main competencies of a manager are the following: competence of responsibility, competence in understanding the goal, competence in understanding the strategy for achieving the goal, competence in determining means of achieving the goal, competence in choosing a control method. The results of assessing the competencies and functions of managers of production departments achieved by controlling the development of innovations at SUEK-Krasnoyarsk, are presented. Conclusions. The use of a competency-based approach in controlling the development of innovations at a coal mining enterprise allows one to purposefully improve the managerial activity of the managerial staff of divisions, and to increase the dynamics of enterprise development.