Human Resources Structure of the Land Reclamation Department:

Sustainable Development Status and Trends

A. A. Ugryumova

, M. P. Zamakhovsky

and L. E. Pautova

Federal State Research Institution All-Russia Scientific and Research Institute for Irrigation and Farming Water Supply

Systems “Raduga”, Kolomna, Russia

Keywords: Human Resources for Land Reclamation, Personnel Structure, Supplementary Vocational Education.

Abstract: The purpose of the work is to study the human resources reclamation, the status, and main trends of its

formation and development as the main resource for the reclamation industry development. In this study, a

scientific-practical and system-logical analysis of the personnel structure of 62 FSBI “Meliovodkhoz

Management”, subordinate to the Land Reclamation Department, in all federal districts was carried out. In

particular, assessment results of the impact of the land reclamation personnel structure and their

supplementary vocational education system are presented in detail. Dependences were revealed between the

specific weights of all employees of the FSBI “Meliovodkhoz Management” and the percentage of these

employees trained in the supplementary vocational education system, in the context of the RF Federal District.

On the basis of the results of the scientific and practical study of the human resources peculiarities of the land

reclamation industry, recommendations have been identified to improve the formation process of human

resources in the agro-industrial complex of the Land Reclamation Department.

1 INTRODUCTION

In the context of the implementation of the State

Program for the Development of Agriculture and

Regulation of Agricultural Products, Raw Materials

and Foodstuffs for the Period up to 2025 and the

Departmental Program “Development of the Land

Reclamation Complex of Russia”, the issues of

studying, identifying and solving the problems of

forming human resources in the agricultural sector

and, in particular, the formation of human resources

in the land reclamation industry.

2 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY

The theoretical and methodological features of the

production and personnel potential formation of the

agro-industrial complex of Russia are studied in the

scientific works of T.I. Gulyaeva, E.V. Buraeva,

O.Yu. Grishaeva (Gulyaeva et al., 2015), M.L.

https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4549-0117

https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1062-6552

https://orcid.org/ 0000-0001-8879-0585

Vartanova (Vartanova, 2017), A.V. Kozlov (Kozlov,

2015), I.N. Primyshev, S.G. Cheremisina, S.S.

Skaranik (Primyshev et al., 2018), Noskova M.V.

(Noskova, 2010), Khlusov V.N., Khlusova I.A.

(Khlusov V.N. and Khlusova I.A., 2017), etc.

Nevertheless, the concept of “human resources” in

land reclamation remains insufficiently studied and

developed in industry research.

In this study, to determine its scientific and

methodological basis and content-structural

elements, the results of the analysis of the category of

"human resources" by branches of the agro-industrial

complex (AIC) are presented and the main trends of

its formation and development are highlighted:

 personal-professional and socio-cultural

orientation;

 structural-professional and competence

orientation.

These trends in the human resources formation

make it possible to determine the totality of its main

structural and content elements:

Ugryumova, A., Zamakhovsky, M. and Pautova, L.

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 personal and individual, mental and

physiological,

 socio-cultural and demographic,

 professional competence and technological,

 industrial, production and innovation,

 self-organization, self-learning and self-

development.

The results of the theoretical analysis of “human

resources” concept and its formation factors allow us

to single out a certain set of scientific and

methodological approaches at the mega, macro and

micro levels of socio-economic and sectoral

interaction. These approaches include strategic,

system-management, organizational-functional,

activity-integrated and production-sectoral.

Research methods: theoretical and practical

analysis, development and systematization of

information and analytical materials on the structure

of personnel of the Federal State Budgetary

Institutions of the Land Reclamation Department of

the Ministry of Agriculture of the Russian Federation

and the supplementary vocational education system,

logical and situational analysis, methods of statistical

analysis, methods of processing and generalization of

results.

3 RESULTS OF RESEARCH

The authors analyzed the personnel structure of 62

FSBI “Meliovodkhoz Management”, subordinate to

the Land Reclamation Department of the Ministry of

Agriculture of the Russian Federation, in all federal

districts for 2015-2019. In particular, the relationship

between the FSBI human resources structure and the

supplementary vocational education system was

analyzed in detail. The total sample of the FSBI

employees was 44357 people, by year: 2015 – 10,844

people; 2016 – 10,606 people; 2017 – 10,083 people;

2018 – 6,404 people; 2019 – 6,420 people.

Applying the correlation analysis, the authors

identified and analyzed the relationship between the

specific weights of the human resources structure of

FSBI “Meliovodkhoz Management” and the

percentage of employees trained in the supplementary

vocational education system.

The absolute value of the correlation coefficient k

evaluates the relationship between the corresponding

values of two features on the Chaddock scale (Table

1).

Table 1: Chaddock scale.

|k|

from 0.1 to 0.3

from 0.3 to 0.5

from 0.5 to 0.7

from 0.7 to 0.9

from 0.9 to 0.99

characteristic

Weak

Moderate

Marked

High

Very high

Source: Theory of Statistics, 2004.

A positive correlation coefficient indicates a

direct relationship (with an increase in the values of

one feature, the corresponding values of another

feature increase). A negative correlation coefficient

indicates a reverse relationship (with an increase in

the values of one feature, the corresponding values of

the other feature decrease).

The authors calculated the correlation coefficients

between the average annual shares of employees in

the human resources structure of FSBI

“Meliovodkhoz Management” and the average

annual percentage of the same employees trained in

the supplementary vocational education system in the

context of federal districts for 2015-2019 (Table 2).

Table 2: Correlation coefficients between the average

annual shares of employees of FSBI “Meliovodkhoz

Management” and the average annual percentage of the

same employees trained in the supplementary vocational

education system for 2015-2019.

Federal District

Managers

Experts

Other employees

Workers

CFD 0 0 0.6 -0.4

NWFD -0.3 0.3 0.5 0.2

NCFD -0.3 -0.7 -0.6 0.6

SFD 0.6 -0.7 -0.4 0.8

VFD 0.5 0.5 0.1 0.3

UFD 1 -1 – -1

SibFD 0 0 0 -0.1

FEFD 0.5 -0.5 -0.6 1

Source: authors' calculations

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Table 3, in accordance with the Chaddock scale,

shows the characteristic of the relationship between

the average annual proportions of employees of FSBI

“Meliovodkhoz Management” and the average

annual percentage of the same employees trained in

the supplementary vocational education system.

Arrows and indicate direct and reverse

relationship, respectively.

Table 3: Characteristics of the relationship between the

average annual share of employees in the personnel

structure of FSBI “Meliovodkhoz Management” and the

average annual percentage of the same employees trained

in the supplementary vocational education system.

Federal

District

Managers

Experts

Other

employees

Workers

CFD

not

availabl

not

availabl

marked

moderat

NWFD

modera

marked

weak

NCFD

modera

high

marked

SFD

marked

high

modera

high

VFD

marked

weak

modera

UFD

very

high

very

high

not

detecte

very

high

SibFD

not

available

not

available

not

available

weak

FEFD

marked

very

high

Source: authors' calculations

The authors also calculated the correlation

coefficients between the average annual specific

weights of the personnel age structure of FSBI

“Meliovodkhoz Management” and the average

annual specific weights of the age structure of

employees trained in the supplementary vocational

education system in all federal districts for 2015-2019

(Table 4).

Table 4: Correlation coefficients between the average

annual specific weights of the employees age structure of

FSBI “Meliovodkhoz Management” and the average annual

specific weights of the age structure of employees trained

in the supplementary vocational education system.

Feder

Distri

under 25

years

25-29

30-39

40-49

50-59

60-64

65 years

and above

CFD 0.6 0 0.3

0.4

0.4 0.5 0.5

NWF

0.2 0.2 0.3 0.5

0.6

0.2 -0.3

NCF

D 1 1 1 -1 1 1 1

SFD

0.4 0.2

0.9 -1 0

0.2 0.6

VFD 0.7 0.8 0.2

0.6 0 0.5 0.6

UFD – – -1 -1 1 1 1

SibFD –

0.4 0.3 0.4 0.4 0 0.1

FEFD – 0.5

0.4 0.6 0.6 0.6 1

Source: authors' calculations

Table 5 shows the characteristics of the

relationship between the personnel age structure of

FSBI “Meliovodkhoz Management” and the age

structure of employees trained in the supplementary

vocational education system.

Table 5: Characteristics of the relationship between the

personnel age structure of FSBI “Meliovodkhoz

Management” and the age structure of employees trained in

the supplementary vocational education system.

Federa

Distric

under 25

years

25-29

30-39

40-49

50-59

60-64

65 years and

above

CFD

marked

not

available

moderate

marked

NWFD

weak

moderat

marked

weak

moderat

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Federa

Distric

under 25

years

25-29

30-39

40-49

50-59

60-64

65 years and

above

NCFD

very high

SFD

moderate

weak

very

high

very

high

not

available

weak

marked

VFD

high

weak

marked

not

availabl

marked

UFD

– not

detected

– not

detected

very high

SibFD

– not

detected

moderate

not

available

weak

FEFD

not

detected

marked

moderate

marked

very high

Source: authors' calculations

To further study the relationship between the

FSBI human resources structure and the system of

advanced training and retraining of personnel in the

supplementary vocational education system, the

authors compared the average annual shares of FSBI

human resources structure and the average annual

percentages of employees trained in the

supplementary vocational education system, as well

as the average annual shares of the FSBI personnel

age structure and the average annual shares age

groups of employees trained in the supplementary

vocational education system, by federal district for

2015-2019 (Olgarenko and Ugryumova, 2020). The

analysis results made it possible to formulate the

following conclusions:

1) in the Central Federal District and

Northwestern Federal District, the percentage of

managers trained in the supplementary vocational

education system exceeds their share in the human

resources structure.

2) in the North Caucasian Federal District, the

percentage of managers and other employees trained

in the supplementary vocational education system

exceeds their share in the human resources structure.

3) in the Volga Federal District, the Siberian

Federal District, and the Far Eastern Federal District,

the percentage of managers and specialists trained in

the supplementary vocational education system

exceeds their share in the human resources structure.

4) in the Southern Federal District, the percentage

of managers, specialists, and other employees trained

in the supplementary vocational education system

exceeds their share in the human resources structure.

5) in the Ural Federal District, the percentage of

managers, specialists, other employees, and workers

trained in the supplementary vocational education

system is lower than their share in the human

resources structure.

Note that in all federal districts, except for the

Ural Federal District, the percentage of managers

trained in the supplementary vocational education

system is higher than their shares in the human

resources structure, and in all federal districts, the

percentage of workers trained in the supplementary

vocational education system is lower than their shares

in the human resources structure. This situation

testifies to the focus of the management on expanding

competencies and, unfortunately, to the lack of

interest of workers to improve their qualifications.

Based on the results of the analysis of the age

structure of employees trained in the supplementary

vocational education system in the Federal District of

the Russian Federation for 2015-2019 the following

conclusions were made:

1) in the Central Federal District, the percentage

of employees between the ages of 30 and 64 trained

in the supplementary vocational education system

exceeds their share in the human resources structure.

2) in the North Caucasian Federal District, the

percentage of employees aged 25 to 39 years trained

in the supplementary vocational education system

exceeds their share in the human resources structure.

3) in the Volga Federal District, the percentage of

employees aged 30 to 39 years and from 60 to 64

years trained in the supplementary vocational

education system exceed their share in the human

resources structure.

4) in the Siberian Federal District, the percentage

of employees aged 30 to 59 trained in the

supplementary vocational education system exceeds

their share in the human resources structure.

5) in the Northwestern Federal District and the

Southern Federal District, the percentage of

employees aged 30 to 49 trained in the supplementary

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vocational education system exceeds their share in the

human resources structure.

6) in the Ural Federal District, the percentage of

employees aged 30 to 39 years and 65 years and older

trained in the supplementary vocational education

system exceeds their share in the human resources

structure.

7) in the Far Eastern Federal District, the

percentage of employees aged 65 to 64 trained in the

supplementary vocational education system exceeds

their share in the human resources structure.

Let us note that in all federal districts, except for

the Far Eastern Federal District, the percentage of

employees aged 30 to 39 trained in the supplementary

vocational education system exceeds their share in the

human resources structure.

4 RESULTS AND DISCUSSION

Table 3 shows the following:

1) the relationship between the proportions of

managers and the percentage of managers trained in

the supplementary vocational education system in the

Central Federal District and the Siberian Federal

District is not registered, in the Urals Federal District

it is direct and very high, in the Southern Federal

District, the Volga Federal District and the Far

Eastern Federal District - direct and marked, in the

Northwestern Federal District and the North

Caucasian Federal District it is reverse and moderate;

2) the relationship between the proportions of

specialists and the percentage of specialists trained in

the supplementary vocational education system in the

Central Federal District and the Siberian Federal

District is not registered, in the Volga Federal District

it is direct and marked, in the Northwestern Federal

District - direct and moderate, in the Urals Federal

District it is reverse and very high, in the North

Caucasian Federal District and the Southern Federal

District it is reverse and high, in the Far Eastern

Federal District it is the reverse and marked;

3) the relationship between the proportions of

other employees and the percentage of other

employees trained in the supplementary vocational

education system is not registered in the Ural Federal

District and the Siberian Federal District, in the

Central Federal District and the Northwestern Federal

District it is direct and marked, in the Volga Federal

District it is direct and weak, in the North Caucasian

Federal District and the Far Eastern Federal District it

is reverse and marked, in the Southern Federal

District it is reverse and moderate;

4) the relationship between the specific weights of

workers and the percentage of workers trained in the

supplementary vocational education, in the Far

Eastern Federal District is direct and very high, in the

Southern Federal District it is direct and high, in the

North Caucasian Federal District it is direct and

marked, in the Volga Federal District it is direct and

moderate, in the Northwestern Federal District it is

direct and weak, in the Ural Federal District it is

reverse and very high, in the Central Federal District

it is reverse and moderate, in the Siberian Federal

District it is reverse and weak,

Similarly, table 3 shows the following:

1) the relationship between the specific weights of

the age group “under 25 years” and people from this

group trained in the supplementary vocational

education system, in the Ural Federal District, the

Siberian Federal District and the Far Eastern Federal

District is not registered, in the North Caucasian

Federal District it is direct and very high, in the Volga

Federal District it is direct and high, in the Central

Federal District it is direct and marked, in the

Southern Federal District it is reverse and marked, in

the Northwestern Federal District it is reverse and

weak;

2) the relationship between the specific weights of

the age group “from 25 to 30 years” and people from

this group trained in the supplementary vocational

education system, in the Central Federal District and

the Urals Federal District is not registered, in the

North Caucasian Federal District it is direct and very

high, in the Volga Federal District it is direct and

high, in the Far Eastern Federal District it is direct and

marked, in the Northwestern Federal District and the

Southern Federal District it is direct and weak, in the

Siberian Federal District it is reverse and moderate,

3) the relationship between the specific weights of

the age group “from 30 to 40 years” and people from

this group trained in the supplementary vocational

education system, in the North Caucasian Federal

District is direct and very high, in the Central Federal

District, Northwestern Federal District and the

Siberian Federal District it is direct and moderate, in

the Volga Federal District it is direct and weak, in The

Southern Federal District and the Ural Federal

District it is reverse and very high, in the Far Eastern

Federal District it is reverse and moderate;

4) the relationship between the specific weights of

the age group “from 40 to 50 years” and people from

this group trained in the supplementary vocational

education system, in the Northwestern Federal

District and the Far Eastern Federal District is direct

and salient, in the Siberian Federal District it is direct

and moderate, in the North Caucasian Federal

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District, the Southern Federal District and the Ural

Federal District it is reverse and very high, in the

Volga Federal District it is reverse and marked, in the

Central Federal District it is reverse and moderate;

5) the relationship between the specific weights of

the age group “from 50 to 60 years” and people from

this group trained in the supplementary vocational

education system, in the Southern Federal District

and the Volga Federal District is not registered, in the

North Caucasian Federal District and the Ural Federal

District it is direct and very high, in the Far Eastern

Federal District it is direct and marked, in the Siberian

Federal District it is direct and moderate, in the

Northwestern Federal District it is reverse and

marked, in the Central Federal District it is reverse

and moderate;

6) the relationship between the specific weights of

the age group “from 60 to 65 years” and people from

this group trained in the supplementary vocational

education system, in the Siberian Federal District is

not registered, in the North Caucasian Federal District

and the Ural Federal District it is direct and very high,

in the Central Federal District, the Volga Federal

District and the Far Eastern Federal District it is direct

and marked, in the Northwestern Federal District and

the Southern Federal District it is reverse and weak;

7) the relationship between the specific weights of

the age group “65 years and older” and people from

this group trained in the supplementary vocational

education system, in the North Caucasian Federal

District, the Ural Federal District, and the Far Eastern

Federal District is direct and very high, in the

Southern Federal District and the Volga Federal

District it is direct and salient, in the Siberian Federal

District it is direct and weak, in the Northwestern

Federal District it is reverse and moderate.

Thus, territories and human resources groups that

are most sensitive to the supplementary vocational

education were identified.

5 CONCLUSIONS

The status of human resources potential in the

institutions of the Land Reclamation Department

revealed as a result of the study indicates serious

threats to its development, which is largely a

reflection of the all-Russian pattern that has

developed on the national labor market.

Based on the study results, the authors consider it

is necessary to give the following recommendations

for improving the process of forming the personnel

potential of the land reclamation of the agro-industrial

complex of Russia.

From the legislative point of view, it is necessary:

 to introduce amendments to the legislatively

established terms for the frequency of

professional development and retraining of

personnel, differentiated by categories and job

responsibilities. For example:

1) Managers – at least once 3 years;

2) Experts – at least once 3-5 years;

3) Employees – at least once 3-5 years;

4) Workers – at least once 5 years.

 to create state branch institutions for the

supplementary vocational education as

vocational and educational centers for

professional excellence in the agro-industrial

complex.

From the regulatory and methodological point of

view, it is necessary:

 to develop and systematically monitor the

staffing of the institutions of the Land

Reclamation Department as the main

technology for building the potential of the

workforce in the industry. This monitoring will

make it possible to form a unified human

resources database of the Land Reclamation

Department and its systematic updating.

 to develop and approve sectoral programs for

the development of professional agrarian

education for the future (5-10 years) in order to

effectively achieve the goals of Federal acts in

the field of socio-economic development of

ACP and vocational education.

From the point of view of the formation of the

personnel potential of the institutions of the Land

Reclamation Department, it is necessary:

 to pay special attention to the presence of

feedback between the employees of the

considered groups and employees studying in

the supplementary vocational education

system, in which the greater the number of

employees of a certain category or age group,

the fewer of them are trained in the

supplementary vocational education system.

 to take into account the specific features of

catch-up education and the

psychophysiological characteristics of the

perception and training of the adult population,

the prevailing age groups training in the

supplementary vocational education system

(40-49 years, 50-59 years and over 64 years);

 to take into account the existing clustering of

the FSBI of the Land Reclamation Department,

which will make it possible to predict the

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supplementary vocational education for the

future, when forming plans for the sectoral

supplementary vocational education.

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