Collective Activity as a Factor in Overcoming Negative Social Transformations
https://doi.org/10.35854/1998-1627-2020-1-62-68
Abstract
The presented study provides a theoretical interpretation of organizational processes associated with the collective activity of employees of enterprises and organizations during social, industrial, and economic transformations and substantiates measures to facilitate social action based on self-understanding and self-development.
Aim. The study aims to determine the range of recurring and new challenges that limit the active engagement of employees in economic and social development and to substantiate directions for the development of social relations that form the socio-professional personality construct, which is creative at its core.
Tasks. The authors use theoretical generalizations and determine cause-and-effect relationships in the activation of the collective activity of employees in solving socially important problems; advance arguments for the range of social actions that help employees establish an object-active stance on the transformation of social, industrial, and economic relations through self-understanding and self-development.
Methods. The theoretical and methodological basis of the study draws on works of Russian and foreign scientists on the formation of social relations, development of the collective activity of employees in solving socially important problems, and formation of humanistic, social, and ethical principles of self-understanding and self-development.
Results. This study identifies the restrictions and major directions of the development of collective activity in the system of social, industrial, and economic relations forming at modern enterprises and organizations and create conditions for the value-oriented activity of various professional, qualification, and status groups of employees.
Conclusions. Determining the range of problem situations, object-active directions, and values of employees in the context of facilitating their engagement in collective activity associated with solving socially important problems makes it possible to implement measures aimed at shaping new economic thinking, modeling joint social actions, creating conditions for mutual trust between various professional and qualification groups of employees.
About the Author
V. K. PotemkinRussian Federation
Valeriy K. Potemkin – Doctor of Economics Sciences, Professor, Honoured Sciences, Head of Department
21 Sadovaya Str., St. Petersburg, 191023
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For citations:
Potemkin V.K. Collective Activity as a Factor in Overcoming Negative Social Transformations. Economics and Management. 2020;26(1):62-68. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.35854/1998-1627-2020-1-62-68