Bulletin of
Vitebsk State
Technological
University

abstract

We have found out that a high level of employ­ment in Belarus is due to the excess of actual number of employees over the economically viable quantity.

Personnel demand is calculated on the basis of standard time required for the manufacture of prod­ucts and useful labour payload. The analysis has revealed both of these components to be invalid. A review of normalization charts and photographs of the daily operations at one of the Belarusian compa­nies have demonstrated that the existing regulations are unstrained and underestimated by 13.5%. There­fore, the actual number of employees of the analysed transaction exceeds the reasonable cost by 11.8%. A typical feature is constant overfulfillment of daily quotas (in some companies up to 150-170%).

Efficiency is also volatile, as it lays the planned loss at 15% when in fact it does not exceed 5%. This causes the labour output ratio to rise, cost to over­run and payroll to increase. The customary practice of labour planning explains the growth of staffing curve in our companies. Further analysis discloses that current system of Organization & Regulation of the Workplace has been developed in 1980 and re­instated in the 2000s. It makes the system relevant only on the date of approval but nowise on the mer­its. By using foreign approaches to calculate the cost of necessary workers we have discovered that State-owned enterprises staff excess reaches 50 %. How­ever the foreign model does not conform to socially oriented economic policy of Belarus and does not comply with the accepted business practice (it lacks developed outsourcing services, staff leasing, working place automation).

Given the harsh conditions of global competition, basic tendencies of staff planning improvement are as follows: cross-industry and industry labour stan­dards updating, socially responsible release of exces­sive quantities.

Areas of staff planning improvement in organizations