The problems of personnel management of metallurgical enterprises on the way of implementation of Industry 4.0

• Main Author: Sepeta V. V.
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: State Higher Educational Institution “Ukrainian State University of Chemical Technology” 2020-06-01
• Series: Економічний вісник Державного вищого навчального закладу Український державний хіміко-технологічний університет
• Subjects: personnel management; industry 4.0; benchmarking; automation of hr-processes; it-solutions
• Online Access: http://ek-visnik.dp.ua/wp-content/uploads/pdf/2020-1/Sepeta.pdf

An important feature of the potential of modern enterprises is their informatization, which is closely related to human resources. The value of human resources is determined by the streams of information they generate in the process of management. The current post-crisis state of the economy gives special importance to the issue of the practical application of methods of improvement of personnel management that enable the company to achieve its strategic goals. Human resources are the most important part of every enterprise. With transformation by the rules of 4th Industrial revolution, human is more important than ever. Most of the public has an opinion that complete automatization of manufacturing process and other organizational tasks within the enterprise might result in losing the jobs, but the reality is complete opposite. Jobs won't be lost but they will go through certain transformations which must be accepted. Resistance to change is the biggest obstacle within the enterprise floor and, besides financial investments, it might slow or break the transformation process. New working positions will demand more complex tasks, while manual work will be completely automatized and simplified. Human takes the control of the process and improves it with knowledge available. Know-how will be the key factor of success at the market. Decision making will be decentralized with vertical and horizontal integration within the organizational system. Human must learn how to work, but also how to communicate in new working environment. The human-human, human-robot and robot-human relationships will be normal everyday activity, but with overall automatization and robotification of the process, human must feel safe and motivated. That will result in the new and innovative ideas, possibility of continuous improvement creates greater value. The article provides a list of the latest technologies used within the concept of Industry 4.0, analyzes the implications of the implementation of Industry 4.0 for personnel management practices, investigates the achievements of the Interpipe Steel plant as benchmarking, and proposes implementation of a system of automation of HR processes in metallurgical enterprises.