Theoretical Aspects of Staff Adaptation Management to Strategic Changes in Enterprise Activities

Abstract

The article considers the problem of adaptation of staff to strategic changes in the enterprise. The interpretation of the term "management" is analyzed from the standpoint of scientists in various fields, which allows to distinguish two aspects of this concept – ensuring the stability of employees or the transition of enterprise staff from the existing level to a new, more appropriate state of external and internal environment. The article proves that the second aspect focuses precisely on such direction of management as change management. The paper analyses the essence of the concepts "organizational change" and "strategic change" in the interpretation of domestic and foreign scientists. It determines that the main difference between these concepts are scale, urgency and depth, i.e. in contrast to organizational changes, which can occur rather slowly and affect certain components of the organization, strategic changes related to organizational transformation, affect large-scale, long-term issues within the whole organization. During solving these issues, the change in the values occurs, as well as the change in aspirations and behavior of staff together with the change in processes, methods, strategies and systems. The research of a number of scientific papers revealed that the problem of reducing the effectiveness of personnel management during strategic change is caused by the low level of adaptability of employees, resistance to modifies and poor consistency of management methods with the program of change. Methods of theoretical generalization, analysis and synthesis were used to conduct the study, which allowed to obtain the following results. The paper proposes an interpretation of the concept of "staff adaptability to strategic change". It defines the nature of the need to adapt staff to strategic changes in the enterprise through the combination of three characteristics: the level of instability of the environment, the type of management system and the type of changes in the enterprise. The article describes personnel adaptation management as a component of the general personnel management process. It determines the task of personnel adaptation management to strategic changes.