Personnel Needs Regional Map as a Planning Element for Territories

Sustainable Development

Svetlana M. Kurbatova

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and Alexey G. Rusakov

Law Institute, Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University, Mira Av. 90, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Law Institute, Siberian Federal University, Svobodny ave. 79, Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Krasnoyarsk State Medical University named after Professor V. F. Voino-Yasenetsky, 1 Partizana Zheleznyaka str.,

Krasnoyarsk, Russia

Keywords: Human Resources, Sustainable Development, Region, Legal Regulation.

Abstract: The article analyzes regional personnel problems in the context of regions sustainable development concept

and essence analysis. The place and role of the personnel issue for regions sustainable development policy

implementation are considered. The specifics of human resources distribution in the region, taking into

account their socio-economic characteristics, are noted. It is proposed to create and maintain a regional

personnel map as a way to minimize the young specialists personnel distribution problem across the region

territories, on the higher education specific educational institution example. To implement this, as well as to

solve other tasks related to ensuring the regions sustainable development, it is proposed to create regional

Analytical personnel centers.

1 INTRODUCTION

State policy aimed at the territories sustainable

development is one of the most important tasks faced

by modern states, including Russia. State stable and

sustainable development ensures national stability

and creates reliable conditions for the further country

development as a whole (Kuzmenkova, 2016).

Measures for the sustainable development formation

and further development should be implemented by

highly professional and knowledgeable specialists.

Kuttubayeva, T.A., in addition to the qualification,

professionalism and education level, also additionally

highlights territorial and professional mobility

(Kuttubayeva, 2006)

This leads to the relevance of raising the personnel

issue, which is hindered by the situation between the

standard of living and large settlements infrastructure,

which are not so many in the Russian Federation, and

rural areas, that make up a large part of it (Ivanova,

2012), and the resulting economic imbalance

(Scheblyakov, Farafontova, Kurbatova and

Kuzhleva, 2020). The reasons are obvious. Low

standard of living, low salaries, lack of comfortable

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housing, unclear prospects for career growth and self-

realization, etc. This is especially true in relation to

the so-called "prestigious professions" like lawyer,

economist, programmer, designer, psychotherapist,

etc.

Modern research has shown that an extremely

small number of young professionals who receive

legal education or work in the legal field have a desire

to work and live in rural areas and in region remote

areas.

Figure 1: Distribution of the vacancy "Lawyer" by the

Krasnoyarsk Region districts (Statistics, 2020).

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Kurbatova, S. and Rusakov, A.

Personnel Needs Regional Map as a Planning Element for Territories Sustainable Development.

DOI: 10.5220/0010598008100815

In Proceedings of the International Scientiﬁc and Practical Conference on Sustainable Development of Regional Infrastructure (ISSDRI 2021), pages 810-815

ISBN: 978-989-758-519-7

So, in 2020, the distribution of the vacancy

"Lawyer" in the Krasnoyarsk Region was as follows:

 73.4% - Krasnoyarsk (the regional center);

 18.2% - Berezovsky district (the territory that

actually became part of Krasnoyarsk);

 The remaining 8.2% account for vacancies in

all other territories of the Krasnoyarsk Region,

on the area of which as many as 5 Frances can

be located (!).

This is due to a whole range of socio-economic

problems that significantly affect the quality of life in

rural areas (Kurbatova and Aisner, 2020). Young

legal professionals do not see any prospects for

professional and career growth. They often perceive

their work in rural areas as a temporary, short-term

phenomenon, and try to change their residence, try to

live in urban settlements, where the quality of life and

professional prospects are higher than in rural and

remote areas of the Krasnoyarsk Region. As a result,

rural and remote areas of the region are experiencing

a "personnel shortage" in young lawyers, who, along

with other professions young representatives, are the

intellectual, economic and social reserve of society,

its strategic human resources and human capital that

can ensure the regions sustainable development.

2 METHODOLOGY

The research was based on scientific works, including

fundamental ones (Salgiriev, 2019; Shchedko, 2016;

Gusev, 2014; Minullina, 2008) on this and similar

topics, as well as government bodies and

organizations statistical data, the results of surveys

and interviews conducted by the authors themselves

and allowed us to formulate our own position on the

issues under study. This allowed us to consider the

issues raised in the article at the empirical and

theoretical levels.

For this purpose, such general scientific methods

as observation, comparison, analysis and synthesis,

analogy and modeling, abstraction and

concretization, etc., as well as private scientific-

statistical analysis, monographic analysis, graphic

and other methods were used.

3 RESULTS

Under sustainable development, the authors

understand the state policy multidimensional

direction, where a special role is assigned to the

personnel issue solution, organized according to the

following scheme:

Figure 2: Stages of solving the personnel issue.

The stages content is built on the wave of a certain

logic:

1) First, it is necessary to identify the region

territories personnel needs for individual professions

(and this should be done, including in the short,

medium and long term);

2) Placing an order to regional educational

institutions for the legal and other personnel training

(while interacting with specific educational

institutions, including the modernization of existing

and the creation of new educational training

programs);

3) Employment in the region.

An effective mechanism for their implementation

is the use of an integrated approach that will reveal

the problem from different sides, form the most

optimal specific measures combination. This leads to

the need for open, broad-format discussions involving

regional and municipal authorities representatives,

employers and employees, higher and secondary

vocational educational institutions, students and the

public, using the positive experience of other regions,

including foreign countries.

However, in order for this not to be chaotic, it is

necessary to create a regional center created at the

level of a specific subject of the federation, which is

designed to accumulate information about the supply

and demand for certain professions, the necessary

territories, acting as a coordinator, and in some cases,

such interactions organizer. This Center is designed

to:

 Develop a map of personnel needs for the

region territories for the short-term (up to 3

years), medium-term (up to 5 years) and long-

term (up to 10 or more years) perspective;

 Coordinate the personnel orders formation and

distribution for educational institutions in the

region.

 To update the issue of the need to develop and

adjust educational programs aimed at training

specialists, taking into account the region

specifics and peculiarities, which should be

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reflected in the curricula variable part, i.e. in

the academic disciplines names and content.

For example, the Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian

University trains bachelors in the field of

"Jurisprudence" in the profile "Legal regulation of

rural areas and agriculture sustainable development",

within the framework of which the graduates are

trained for the following activities types:

 Rule-making;

 Law application;

 Law enforcement;

 Expert advisory.

At the same time, Krasnoyarsk State University

takes into account the Krasnoyarsk Region regional

specifics and the university agricultural profile.

Similarly, the master's degree program in the field

of "Jurisprudence" is developed: the profile "Land

relations State legal regulation" is implemented in

relation to the lawyers for rural areas training, based

on the special socio-economic significance of land as

legal relations resource and subject, as well as the

university specifics.

The university administration is doing a lot to

ensure that law graduates (as well as graduates of

other fields of studies and specialties prepared at the

agrarian university) are employed throughout the

Krasnoyarsk Region, however, there is an acute lack

of strong state support that would cover the political,

economic and social aspects of this issue.

4 DISCUSSION

Territories sustainable development is understood by

different authors as a combination of different

elements. So, Antonova, M.A. understands the

regions sustainable development as a combination of

three elements: economic efficiency; ensuring equal

living conditions; and environmental sustainability

(Antonova, 2012). Tretyakova, E.A. Osipova, M. Y.

distinguish economic, social and environmental

elements (Tretyakova and Osipova, 2018).

Minullina, N.V. defines sustainable development

as a transition from the economy of using natural

resources to the economy of their reproduction, in

which the future generations interests are ensured,

highlighting the educational component as a separate

element (Minullina, 2008).

This is facilitated by the lack of uniformity in the

legal regulation of the Russian Federation state policy

area. For example, the Urban Planning Code of the

Russian Federation defines "territories sustainable

development" as "ensuring ... safety and favorable

conditions for human life, limiting the negative

impact of economic and other activities on the

environment and ensuring the natural resources

protection and rational use in the interests of present

and future generations" (p. 3, p. 1).

The rural territories of the Russian Federation

sustainable development concept for the period up to

2020 (approved by the decree of the Government of

the Russian Federation No. 2136-р of November 30,

2010) was focused on rural territories and meant by

their sustainable development "rural territories stable

socio-economic development, increasing the

production of agricultural and fish products,

improving the agriculture and the fisheries complex

efficiency, achieving the rural population full

employment and improving their standard of living,

as well as rational land usage". Almost word for word

(but not completely!) this definition is repeated by the

Strategy for Sustainable Development of Rural

Territories of the Russian Federation for the period up

to 2030 (approved by the decree of the Government

of the Russian Federation on February 02, 2015 No.

151-р): "rural territories stable socio-economic

development, increasing the agricultural production

volume, increasing the agriculture efficiency,

achieving the rural population full employment and

improving their standard of living, rational use of

land". Recognizing the role of the state in shaping the

territory sustainable development, it should be

recognized that in Russia there is no federal law that

would comprehensively regulate these issues,

combining urban planning, social, economic,

personnel, educational and other foundations for such

development.

The authors support the legislators position. They

pay special attention to the personnel issues solution

(which is reflected in the current regulatory legal

acts). They agree with the opinion of the authors, who

believe that staffing is the basis for the territories

development and is multidimensional in nature.

(Gorbunova and Shashlova, 2009; Vlasova, 2016;

Gainov, 2015). At the same time, the authors

understand the sustainable development of the

Krasnoyarsk Region as a organizational, legal,

economic and social measures complex system that

allow for the prompt and effective resolution of

economic, organizational, social and legal issues of

ensuring vital activity and maintaining an adequate

quality of life in the region territory.

The human factor is one of the most important

elements of this measures system, as it manifests

itself both at the organizational and executive levels

(Kurbatova, Aisner and Naumov, 2020).

And this determines the importance of training

personnel who could implement these functions.

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For the territory (and the country as a whole)

sustainable development in the legal sphere (law-

making, law arrangement and enforcement), it is

necessary:

1) To create the high-quality and material-

supported normative legal acts at the level of the

Russian Federation subject and at the municipal level.

At the same time, these regulatory legal acts should

not simply duplicate the provisions contained in the

federal level acts, but should take into account the

territories specific needs, ensuring their timely

implementation by law enforcement agencies.

2) To assign tasks of providing the territory with

appropriate highly professional personnel, first of all,

to regional educational institutions. This applies both

to the personnel training in narrow-profile

professions (agronomist, veterinarian, etc.), and

others, for example, in the field of law. To do this, it

is necessary to adapt existing and develop new

educational programs that take into account this

specificity. An example is the Krasnoyarsk State

University, which teaches lawyers for bachelor's and

master's degrees, in profiles that have a regional

aspect.

3) It is necessary to build a clear interaction

between employers, educational institutions and the

public (potential and real students, employees in the

region).

At the moment, this is being prevented by:

 "Weak feedback from business structures that

do not make specific requirements for the level

and quality of training;

 The employers unwillingness to participate in

the formation of practical skills in students, to

provide their resources for the educational

programs implementation;

 Business insufficient participation in the

innovations development and replication

received within the walls of educational

institutions;

 Weak interest (largely due to a lack of

understanding of the benefits) in creating a

single educational, scientific and industrial

space" (Gulyaeva, Buraeva, Vlasova and

Grishaeva, 2014). It can be recommended that

regional employers should adopt the foreign

colleagues experience when they seek out

future employees from school, paying for their

further education at universities with the

obligation of these students to work a certain

minimum number of years with these

employers in the future.

It is necessary to recall the positive experience of

targeted training that existed in Russia earlier and

implied a similar approach. At the same time, special

attention should be paid to local youth, based on the

calculation that in the future, having graduated, many

do not want to leave their small homeland for good,

lose family ties (67% of the respondents answered

this in the authors studying at the Law Institute of the

Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian University from rural

areas).

We believe that we should return to the young

specialists distribution system, especially when it

comes to students studying on a budget basis.

4) Regional authorities should independently

develop programs of assistance to young

professionals, fixing them by law, providing for the

funds allocation for this from the budget

5) It is important to develop personal motivation

and form value, cultural, civic-patriotic and other

personal attitudes, and this should be done from the

kindergarten stage. In the future these qualities should

be developed more.

In particular, in relation to the legal profession, it

is noted that its prestige in terms of promoting justice,

protecting people in difficult life situations, etc. is

currently very low in Russia; and lawyers themselves

are often perceived by the population as "reshalas",

cynical and corrupt people.

6) The desire for a decent salary and the need for

housing are not the only conditions that determine the

graduates willingness to go to work in the region.

High wage in the absence of opportunities to spend it,

as well as housing, which often needs to be repaired,

offset these two conditions with the third one, that is

the need for infrastructure. This was expressed by

21% of junior students and 78% of senior students

from among the 220 students studying at the Law

Institute of the Krasnoyarsk State Agrarian

University, interviewed by the authors during the

study. These are high-quality healthcare institutions,

a variety of shops and shopping centers, sports and

other cultural and leisure facilities, cafes and

restaurants, etc. Thus, this puts the availability of

appropriate infrastructure in these territories among

the priority conditions for the young personnel

distribution across the region territories.

Therefore, it is necessary to raise its value in the

eyes of society (and the lawyers themselves), through

a number of measures:

 To increase the number of public appearances

by lawyers;

 To popularize the jurisprudence through

modern technologies that allow the population

free legal education development, i.e. casts,

podcasts, video clips, video lectures, mobile

applications created under the guidance of

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persons who are well-known and deservedly

respected in the field of jurisprudence;

 To conduct legal lectures for the population on

the basis of educational institutions;

 To use civil society institutions for this

purpose;

 To expand the "legal clinics" capabilities (for

example, there are only two of them in the

Krasnoyarsk Region, on the basis of the Law

Institutes of the Krasnoyarsk State University

and the Siberian Federal University).

7) Along with the region specifics, it is necessary

to take into account the specifics of the profession in

certain areas and spheres.

For example, agriculture is often characterized by

a more complex management system compared to

other sectors of economy. This affects the

organization and content of the legal service itself in

rural areas, which has historical prerequisites. Thus,

according to the Instructions on the procedure for

legal services to collective farms, approved by Order

No. 265/25 of the Ministry of Agriculture of the

USSR and the Ministry of Justice of the USSR dated

November 16, 1984, various forms of legal services

to collective farms were previously used in

agriculture, i.e. a collective farm legal adviser, a head

collective farm (state farm) lawyer (legal group), a

legal advice to the bar association lawyer and other

forms.

In connection with the abovementioned, we

consider it appropriate to form a personnel

distribution map for each region in the territory. It is

advisable to implement the following model:

 The personnel needs awareness in the short-

term (up to 3 years), medium-term (up to 5

years) and long-term (up to 10 years or more)

perspective;

 The development of a program to meet these

needs by analyzing the services educational

market, the specific employers financial

capabilities and (or) regional and (or)

municipal budgets;

 Drawing up a map of personnel needs based on

geographical, demographic and other maps of

the region;

 The roadmap development (estimates

preparation, calculation, the planned number of

people employed for specific jobs, the

mechanism for organizing this, educational

institutions involved in the project, etc.).

This activity should be carried out by relevant

specialists working on a permanent basis, with the

involvement of employers and employees

representatives in certain types of professions, as well

as educational institutions located in the region and

their students. In this connection, we propose to

create a regional Analytical personnel center in each

Russian Federation subject, with the appropriate

competence for solving this type of tasks, but also

responsibility for the improper execution.

5 CONCLUSIONS

Of course, such a direction of Russian state policy as

the sustainable regional development formation as the

basis for creating an economically strong, socially

protected and politically stable state is a reflection of

the natural development level that the Russian

Federation has achieved to date.

However, there are still many unresolved

problems in this area, there is a lack of regulatory

legal acts at different levels, and there is a lack of

understanding on the part of different subjects and,

primarily, authorities, in solving quite certain issues.

We believe that it is necessary to conduct scientific

research on this topic, that will help to identify

problems and find ways to overcome them and

contribute to the regions sustainable development

formation.

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