Personnel potential of industrial enterprises: formation and management

Purpose. Establishing the prerequisites for the formation of the company’s personnel potential system and the search for possible ways of its development via the example of machine-building enterprises of Ukraine. Methodology. The research uses general scientific methodology: analysis, synthesis, systematization, comparison method. Data from the financial statements of enterprises, which are publicly available, were used for calculations. The object of the work involves large machine-building enterprises of Ukraine. Findings. A detailed study of the activities of ten enterprises of the machine-building industry of Ukraine was carried out. The existing state of personnel resources and factors that shape the personnel potential of the enterprise and have an impact on its development are analysed. The authors’ own approaches to personnel potential assessment are proposed. Originality. A comprehensive analytical toolkit for evaluating the personnel potential of an enterprise, which includes an integral indicator of personnel development, the level of profitability of personnel potential, and potentially possible income from the use of personnel potential is proposed. Unlike existing methods, the use of this evaluation complex eliminates the dependence of results on the subjective opinion of the evaluator and makes it possible to determine the most effective directions for improving the personnel potential of industrial enterprises. Practical value. The result of the work is the development of the authors’ indicators of the analysis of the personnel potential of the enterprise such as the personnel development index, the profitability of the personnel potential and the amount of potentially possible income from the use of the personnel potential. Any enterprise, regardless of its size, personnel and industry, can use these indicators to calculate the existing level of personnel potential.