This article discusses methods for the employees quality and performance improvement in the electric power industry enterprises. The characteristics of the factors influencing the development of personnel are given. The foreign experience of corporate training is analyzed, which identifies ways to improve labor activity, maintain labor discipline, increase the level of labor motivation, develop corporate culture and increase the employee loyalty at industrial enterprises. The structure of personnel training methods at the enterprise is schematically presented. The article substantiates the need for the formation of a qualified human resource that provides the company with the growth of economic indicators of production activity, a high degree of competitiveness in the industry market, and a positive image of the organization

This article is devoted to the innovation activity of the regions as an analysis of one of the factors of sustainable economic development of the Russian Federation. For this purpose, it analyzes the dynamics and structure of own-produced goods shipped, works performed and services rendered in-house, including innovative ones, at the enterprises of the country’s regions. The article groups the regions and federal districts by the average annual growth coefficients of innovative goods, works, services at enterprises in the regions, which allowed to identify regional stratification by growth rate of the volume of innovative goods produced. The article provides statistical data on the analysis of the region. The analysis is carried out and a comparative characteristic of the development of the region by innovation.