The article considers the categories of social, economic, and spiritual efficiency. The emphasis is made on the crisis of modern economic processes. The subject of the article is the contradictions arising in the process of increasing economic efficiency. Existing methodological approaches to the study of these categories are critically reviewed. The main goal of the article is to create the author's concept of overcoming the contradictions between the growth of economic and social efficiency in the conditions of modern economic organizations. The concept is based on the conflict paradigm. The methodological basis of the study consists of the concepts of foreign and domestic researchers dealing with the effectiveness of social reproduction. The main theoretical concept is neo-Marxism. The purpose of the article is to determine the methodology for reconciling contradictions arising in the process of managing the economic efficiency of an economic system. The thesis of P. Drucker on the inevitability of aggravating the economic crisis is considered as the cause of the conflict. In combination with the totality of such general scientific and special methods of cognition as dialectic, systemic, descriptive, theoretical modelling, the article reveals the main contradictions in the assessment of the growth of the economic and social efficiency of the economic system. The main conclusion of the article is the need to abandon the use of singlefactor methods for evaluating the effectiveness of the functioning of economic systems. The main problem is the fact that the growth of economic efficiency most often has a non-linear effect on the change in social and spiritual efficiency. Therefore, it is necessary to use at the same time changes in all three specified directions of efficiency, so one can determine the general vector of changes in the economic system. As a final conclusion, it was proposed to apply the efficiency rule proposed by Pareto to this assessment, according to which the system state is optimal when the value of each particular criterion describing the system state cannot be changed without deteriorating other system indicators. The article presents a table, in which the contradictory changes that are the result of a number of managerial influences are demonstrated for economic and social efficiency. A logical formula for determining the effectiveness of changes in the efficiency of the economic system, based on the indices of changes in individual quantitative indicators, is proposed. Criteria are defined that make it possible to quantify each of the blocks determining efficiency: economic, social, and spiritual. An assessment of possible indicators at the macroeconomic and microeconomic level is given. The article formulates a model for establishing the balance (optimum) of individual indicators of the total efficiency of the economic system. This model is based on the balance of economic interests of employers (owners) and social interests of workers, coordinated through culture, which is defined as one...

Article deals with the modern management problem associated with improving the accuracy of the ration of managerial work. Emphasis is on the need to move from the rationing of the working day to the rationing of individual labor functions (operations). The subject of the article is contradictions arising in the process of integration of quantitative and qualitative methods of research of the work process. The main purpose of the article is to create the author's concept of overcoming contradictions between the existing methods of regulation managerial labor and the practical need of enterprises in developing these norms. Concept is based on the synthesis of quantitative and qualitative methods. The methodological framework of the study consists of the concept of foreign and domestic researchers involved in the issues of labor rationing and management efficiency. The problem of the article lies in the fact that the existing approaches to standards of management personnel are not sufficiently adapted to solving problems in conditions of intellectual labor. The cause of the problem is seen as the need of enterprises to improve the efficiency of not individual employees involved in management issues, but of the entire business process management. In combination with the totality of such general scientific and special methods of cognition, such as dialectical, systemic, descriptive, theoretical modeling, the article offers approaches to eliminate this contradiction. The main conclusion of the article is the necessity of application of two-stage approaches to the valuation of managerial work, where the first phase involves a qualitative analysis of the structure of the business process, is conducted after the close study of the cost of labor in the performance of these functions. The article defines the limitations of the application of this method and offers recommendations for its integration with methods of studying the cost of working time. As the resulting conclusions, it is proposed to apply not for all business processes but for the most significant for the organization. This method will optimize the costs of rationing, and explore only the largest (and, accordingly, costly) business processes for an organization. The basis of this method is the ranking system proposed in the article. It is also insisted that in modern management practice it is inappropriate to control individual participants in a business process (jobs). It is necessary to standardize the entire business process with its further distribution among the performers.

The article considers the totality of environmental and geological problems of the Kryvyi Rih iron ore basin. The aim of the article is to analyze the mountain-ecological consequences of increasing (expanding) the pace of mining in densely populated regions with a well-developed infrastructure. Based on the analysis of the current situation in the city Kryvyi Rih (Ukraine), it was proposed to transfer the established trends to the potential future consequences of increasing mining in the Urals. The research methods are the method of logical and structural analysis, logical modeling, analysis of literary sources. The main hypothesis of the study is a mining enterprise, which, regardless of current economic indicators, cannot be liquidated (reorganized) in a short time, since it requires preliminary systematic preparation. According to the results of the analysis, it was established that the main problems of mining enterprises are that they cannot be quickly eliminated, since this will negatively affect the natural environment, giving rise to numerous mining and geological problems, primarily related to hydrogeology and filling the voids. In case of refusal to solve these problems, serious consequences arise related to public health. The solution of large and global environmental investment projects is complicated by the fact that competing enterprises often operate within the same basin, which objectively cannot independently combine investment efforts to solve environmental and geological problems. Based on the results of the article, the main conclusion is formulated that it is advisable to develop an appropriate methodology for controlled attenuation of mining operations.

Introduction. The article critically comprehends the Soviet developments in the field of mining management personnel labor regulation. The works of modern authors and Soviet normative and methodological materials are considered. Based on the analysis, it is concluded that the Soviet methodological approaches to rationing the number of management personnel in general meet the challenges of modern conditions if critically scrutinized. In the course of the research the authors carried out a recalculation of the number of standards for ferrous metallurgy enterprises, which showed that the Soviet methodological approaches can have applied value if they are somewhat modernized and combined with other methods. Research aim is to conduct an analytical study of the possibility of using the Soviet methodology of rationing the number of management personnel in the conditions of modern mining enterprises. Research methodology includes the method of theoretical analysis, the method of induction, economic and mathematical methods of analysis. As a result, analytical formulas are proposed with the help of which it is proposed to modify the Soviet approaches to rationing the number of managerial personnel. A logical scheme is proposed, which can be fully used for the final establishment of the number of managers and staff scheduling. The opinion is expressed about the need for strict control of the number of management personnel and the establishment of a normative balance between the number of performers (workers) and engineering and management personnel of the enterprise. Summary. The proposed method is quite universal and can be of practical value in calculating the standard number of employees of mining enterprises

The article considers the category "time" in terms of the information economy. The subject of the study is the category of time acting as a resource of the modern economy. The main purpose of the article is the formation of the author's concept of time as an economic resource in the conditions of the information economy. The methodological base is made up of concepts of foreign and domestic researchers regarding the concept of time; first of all, the concept of M. Heidegger. In combination with a set of such general scientific and special methods of cognition as a dialectical, historical, systematic, descriptive, selective one, the article reveals the significance of time as an economic resource. Existing methodological approaches to the study of this category become critically comprehensible. The concept is based on a resource approach. As a result, the crisis of applying the classical methodology of the industrial economy to the study of time as a resource of the information economy is determined. The main problem is the fact that the value of an information product is largely dependent on subjective factors and cannot be related to the total time spent on producing such a product. The transformation of the influence of time on the processes of production and consumption in terms of the information economy is considered. Conclusions. Based on the results of the study conducted, time as a public resource is proposed to be considered in 3 aspects: as a production resource (time of work), in which it reveals internal competition with other types of resources; as a promotion resource, in which the time of consumption of the corresponding product has an alternative with the time of consumption of another similar product (commodity competition); time as a resource of consumption or a personal resource (which determines the possibility and desire of the individual to consume a particular good). The article defines mechanisms of the influence of the time factor (as one of the important economic resources) on the process of social reproduction. The author's concept of information flow rate is formulated, the resource phase of time is characterized, and the author's list of differences of time functions in the information and classical economy is proposed. The author's category "speed of information use" has been introduced, which is the basis for considering the possibilities of consumers of information to an adequate choice of the object of consumption. Differences of time in the classical and information economy are formulated and their comparative analysis is carried out. Specific features of consumption in the information economy, where consumption is associated with the search and interpretation of necessary information, are determined. The factor that complicates consumption is called the increasing rate of the information flow, expressed by the increase in the number of messages, which complicates the search and increases the number of errors in the choice of the information product. As a factor determining the p...