The Directions for the Development of the Social Instruments for Enterprise Human Resource Management in a Strategic Context
Serniak I. I., Serniak O. I.

Serniak, Iryna I., and Serniak, Oleh I. (2025) “The Directions for the Development of the Social Instruments for Enterprise Human Resource Management in a Strategic Context.” The Problems of Economy 4:262–269.
https://doi.org/10.32983/2222-0712-2025-4-262-269

Section: Economics and Enterprise Management

UDC 005.96:331.108.2:005.21

Abstract:
The article examines the issues of developing social instruments for enterprise human resource management in a strategic context amid economic transformation, digitalization of management processes, and the increasing role of human capital as a key factor in ensuring the competitiveness and sustainable development of enterprises. The relevance of the study is due to the need to transition from fragmented use of social instruments in human resource management to their systematic integration into the corporate strategy of the enterprise, which allows improving the efficiency of managerial decisions and the organization’s adaptability to changes in the external environment. The aim of the article is to substantiate theoretical and methodological approaches to the formation and implementation of a strategy for developing social instruments for enterprise human resources management, as well as to design instruments for selecting the optimal strategy, considering the multi-criteria nature of socioeconomic processes in the field of human resources management. To achieve this aim, the article employs a system approach, methods of analysis and synthesis, generalization, economic-mathematical modeling, and expert evaluation techniques. The study concludes that the social instruments for human resources management should be viewed as a comprehensive strategic system encompassing motivational, socio-psychological, communicative, and organizational mechanisms that influence employees’ work behavior. It is substantiated that integrating the strategy for developing the social instruments of human resources management into the overall enterprise strategy promotes increased labor productivity, enhances employees’ innovative activity, improves the moral and psychological climate within the team, reduces staff turnover, and increases employee loyalty. A multi-criteria approach for selecting the optimal strategy for developing the social instruments of human resources management is proposed, combining quantitative performance indicators with qualitative expert evaluations, enabling consideration of both economic and socio-psychological aspects of human resources management. It is concluded that implementing adaptive strategies for developing the social instruments of human resources management is an important prerequisite for ensuring the long-term competitiveness of the enterprise under conditions of uncertainty. The practical significance of the obtained results lies in their potential application in the operations of enterprises across various sectors of the economy when developing human resources management strategies. The prospects for further research are related to the empirical testing of the proposed approaches and the development of digital instruments for supporting strategic human resource management.

Keywords: social instruments in human resources management, strategic management, human capital, personnel strategy, efficiency of human resources management, multi-criteria modeling.

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Serniak Iryna I. – Candidate of Sciences (Economics), Associate Professor, Department of International Economic Relations, Vasyl Stefanyk Carpathian National University (57 Shevchenka Str., Ivano-Frankіvsk, 76018, Ukraine)
Email: ira_sernyak@ukr.net
Serniak Oleh I. – Candidate of Sciences (Public Administration), Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Department of Public Management, Administration and National Security, Ivano-Frankivsk National Technical University of Oil and Gas (15 Karpatska Str., Ivano-Frankіvsk, 76018, Ukraine)
Email: oleh_sernyak@ukr.net

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