Improving Personnel Management by Organizational Projects: Implications for Open Innovation

The methodology and basic elements of the business process of one-stage economic assessment of organizational projects for personnel management at Russian enterprises are presented. The aim of the study is to analyze and develop clear criteria for assessing the effectiveness of projects and improving personnel management systems for enterprises of different industries and types of activities. The economic and financial assessment of projects aimed at the development of personnel management systems is based on the general methodology for the commercial assessment of projects, which is presented in the so-called United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) methodology. The article proposes the resulting model “maximum costs of the HRM”. The features of the proposed methodology are based on the assumption of future digitalization and are associated with the need for a preliminary calculation of the maximum possible project costs, localization of the projects under consideration at existing enterprises, and the mandatory separation of project goals for increasing sales or reducing the number of personnel. In accordance with the different objectives of the projects, a certain order and special indicators of decision-making are proposed. Companies with a different structure of costs could be assessed via the proposed model and the results presented in the article. The model allows us to create an information base for reasonable decision-making on HR management (HRM) projects and future digitalization of settlements.