Professional Standards as a Tool to Provide for Economic Safety of Businesses and Restraints to Their Implementation

Abstract

Between 2019 and 2020 Russia has experienced the introduction of the national qualification system based on professional standards. The National Qualification System (NQS) aims mainly at bringing at compliance supply and demand in the labor market. It must significantly enhance the efficiency of the human resources in the national economy and subsequently, improve economic safety both at micro- and macro levels. The article considers how the NQS and economic safety of the company are interconnected as well as major issues which national businesses face when introducing professional standards into their work. The research is based on the analysis of HR processes in over fifty businesses in Altai Krai and the in-depth interview with specialists. The revealed issues while introducing professional standards have been grouped according to their reason: those which deal with the quality and content of professional standards and enactments of the business sphere; the issues of information and psychological origin caused by the CEO personality and internal issues of the business. The specialists of the Regional center for qualification development possess great experience which allowed them to offer some solutions, implement them and witness positive results.