Grand Prix & Victory Gained by Our Economists

The Department of Business & Economy of Astrakhan State University has gained two large victories. As a result of two national contests, the textbook for universities “Labor Remuneration” has gained a grand prix; whereas a cycle of research papers related to issues of HR management has been acknowledged as the best one in its nomination.

Faculty staff of the Department of Business & Economy has taken part in two national contests: Best Academic Development in HR Management and Best Research Paper in HR Management; the contests have been held as a part of the federal contest “Innovative Human Relations Management - 2014”. The textbook “Labor Remuneration” by Professor Oxana Mineva, Dean of the Department, has been nominated as the best academic textbook; it has gained a grand prix. The textbook has surpassed works by scholars from a number of Russia’s top universities, including Lomonosov Moscow State University.

“The first edition of our textbook was published in 2007”, Prof. Mineva told us. “We wrote it as a result of several years of hard work. Its 2^nd edition was more informative: it included themes related to application of advanced management techniques and its adaptation to labor remuneration processes. The techniques include remuneration within a talents management system, key performance indicators, techniques of labor resource evaluation against the cost of manufactured commodities, and so on. We introduced much of that at our University”.

The textbook “Labor Remuneration” is the only textbook in its field that has been approved by the Federal Ministry of Education & Science. As for the victory in the nomination “Best Paper by a Professor” in the contest “Best Research Paper in HR Management”, it has been gained by Prof. Oxana Mineva and Dr. Natalya Kochetkova, who published their papers in the journal “Chelovek i Trud” (“Humans & Labor”) that has a high citation index and that is the central edition in the field of HR management. Our scholars have published papers whose themes were “Systemization of Models of University Faculty Staff’s Labor” and “Arrangement of Faculty Staff’s Labor Remuneration: Evolving Approaches & Suggestions to Enhance”. It took our scientists many years to achieve such bright results. All that began in 2000, when Prof. Mineva defended her PhD thesis; then the researches were continued in Prof. Mineva’s D.Sc. thesis defended in 2007 and in Dr. Kochetkova’s PhD thesis defended in 2012.

The winners are not going to stop at this point; they have large-scale plans for the next academic year.