The problem of economic stimulation of top managers remains relevant and unresolved. Economic incentives of top managers should be based on the performance of the enterprise, and this relationship is recognized by economists, scientists, and practitioners. The main problem here is the development of a scale of economic incentives. In most cases, economic incentives are associated with only one indicator of performance - the company's profit, which is a criterion for incentives. But objectively, the criteria may be other indicators that reflect the efficiency of financial resources, fixed assets, labor resources, and the effectiveness of investment and innovation. A new analytical method has been developed that strengthens the objectivity of stimulating the work of top managers. The proposed logic of the stages of calculating the incentives of top managers allows not only to describe the performance of the enterprise using an appropriate system of indicators but also to establish the relationship between them and the economic incentives of top managers to ensure effective performance in general. The advantage of the proposed analytical method of stimulating top managers is to take into account the business needs of enterprises, the peculiarities of their activities.

The article is concerned with the issues of determining and evaluating the economic sustainability of enterprise. The publication analyzes the views of scholars on the definition of «economic sustainability of enterprise». A closer definition of this concept is proposed, according to which under the economic sustainability of enterprise it is advisable to understand its complex ability to respond to and withstand the influence of negative relevant factors of the external and internal environment, while maintaining its internal structure, dynamics of operation, which contributes to the achievement of the main goals of functioning and development of enterprises. The main components of economic sustainability of enterprise are allocated, including: financial, industrial, personnel, organizational, marketing, social, environmental, investment, innovation. The main stages of the process of ensuring economic sustainability of enterprise are proposed, the basis of implementing which is the principles of unity – interconnectedness and subordination of all components of sustainability; complexity, which involves taking into account relevant factors of influence; continuity – implementation of the regulatory process on the basis of permanence and sustainability; adequacy, i.e. compliance of the system with patterns of enterprise development. The proposed components and stages of ensuring and determining the economic sustainability of enterprise are used as the basis of the developed methodical approach concerning its quantitative assessment, which is built up using methods of multidimensional factor, cluster analysis, additive convolution method for calculating the integral indicator of economic sustainability of enterprises. The developed methodical approach was tested on the statistical data of nine machine-building enterprises of Kharkiv region, which proved its applied value and possibility of further use.

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The article is devoted to substantiation of the main subjective qualitative factors which are typical for labor incentives of managers of the strategic level of enterprises management, and which it is reasonable to take into account while developing the system of economic incentives of their activity, since basing and determination of the incentives amount only on the statistical objective information is not able to influence significantly the final results of top-managers work. The purpose of the article is to identify priority qualitative factors of influence on the process of economic stimulation of the activity of top managers of industrial enterprises and their quantitative interpretation based on the combination of qualitative assessments into an integral indicator. The tasks of the article are the analysis of the results of the survey of top managers on individual qualitative factors of influence on their motivation, the definition of statistical relationships between factors, determining the explicit and latent trends in the dynamics of these factors, the calculation of the integral indicator of the impact of the identified significant factors, the formation of methodological support to identify priority qualitative factors of economic incentives performance of top managers of industrial enterprises. The object of the article is the process of economic stimulation of the results of activity of top managers of industrial enterprises. The subject of the article is the theoretical provisions, methodological support, and practical proposals for economic incentives for managers of the strategic level of administration at industrial enterprises. Methods. To achieve the goal, the article used the following basic general and special research methods: theoretical generalization, questionnaire survey, descriptive statistics tools, Spearman rank correlation coefficient, multivariate factor analysis, method for calculating the integral index of qualitative factors of managers' labor stimulation, graphical method. Results. The results of the study are: the scientific achievements of the predecessors on the formation and use of performance indicators of enterprises as indicators of incentives for top managers; surveyed top managers of industrial enterprises regarding their opinions on the main factors influencing the performance of their own activities; proved the relationship of influence factors on the incentives of top managers presented in the questionnaire; clear and latent tendencies of interrelation of factors of influence on productivity of managers of strategic level of the enterprises are revealed; the integrated indicator of qualitative factors of stimulation of work of managers is defined, quantitative values of which have proved existence of insufficient account of factors on process of stimulation. Conclusions. As a result of determining the relationship between the qualitative factors influencing the economic incentives of top managers developed methodological support, which differs: the content of qualitative factors; analysis of the structure of the studied set of arrangements of answers of experts using the tools of descriptive statistics; assessment of the closeness of the relationship between qualitative factors of economic incentives for top managers in the dynamics; assessment of the consistency of the answers of experts in the dynamics; identification of latent factors of economic stimulation of top managers; analytical method of developing an integrated quality indicator of economic stimulation for top managers.

The competitiveness of enterprises depends not only on the efficient use of economic resources, promotion of the product brand, but also on meeting the needs of consumers for quality products. Therefore, economic entities should pay attention to the production of goods without deviations from standards and norms and without rejects, which will allow them to win in the market competition. This justifies the relevance of the subject matter of the article and its timeliness. The purpose of the article is to generalize the theoretical concepts of the product quality management process and to develop recommendations on the example of an industrial enterprise of the flow type of production to reduce product defects. The object is the process of managing product quality and reducing rejects. The article’s subject is the theoretical provisions, methods, methodological and practical recommendations for managing the quality of products of industrial enterprises aimed at reducing the percentage of defective products. The main methods used in the article are general scientific methods of cognition: analysis and synthesis, theoretical generalization, monographic, structural-logical and system analyses, special research methods: statistical analysis, expert survey, Pareto rule, Ishikawa method, and graphical method. The main results presented in the article are as follows. Based on the generalization of scientific literature, the author proposes a definition of the concept of quality. Quality should be understood as ensuring the quality of each type of economic resource, which allows for a high-quality course of business processes and production of goods which satisfy the needs of consumers and are provided with their effective demand. In other words, products that are defective in terms of their technical or quality characteristics do not meet their standard and are unable to provide their intended functions. Products can be recognized as defective at any stage of production and operations of the production cycle. On the example of the industrial enterprise under study, the article considers the statistics of nonconformity and defective products in the most important production unit, the work of which is characterized by a significant percentage of rejects, according to operational and output control. Using the Pareto rule, the main causes of rejects are identified and Ishikawa diagrams are constructed for the most significant two causes. Further, in accordance with the Ishikawa diagrams, measures to prevent nonconformities and defects in products are proposed for two main reasons and five sections: equipment; control system; staff; raw materials; and working conditions. A unified standardized sequence for determining the causes of deviations and rejects in 16 stages has been developed. The use of training methods for staff of an industrial enterprise to improve product quality and reduce rejects is proposed.