AGING OF PERSONNEL AS STAFFING PROBLEMAT THE COAL INDUSTRY ENTERPRISES
The purpose of the article is to consider problems of aging personnel and to state its influence on performance level indicators of the coal industry enterprises. The methodology of the research includes the analysis of economic characteristics and characteristics of staff potential, interviews with management and specialists of the enterprise. As a result of the analysis of the key technical and economic performance level indicators of the enterprise significant changes in sales and profits, the falling of rates of production caused besides the external economic factors, are revealed by quality of personnel structure and deterioration of staff. Reduction of number of youth at the enterprise, growth of number of the senior age group workers is revealed that demonstrates aging of shots and leads to non-optimal structure of personnel. Nearly a half of production personnel has no vocational education or has primary professional education. The problem of aging of personnel negatively effects on efficiency of use of working hours and human resources in general. On the basis of the carried-out complex analysis negative impact of non-optimal age structure of personnel on certain performance level indicators of the enterprise is stated. The practical importance of the research consists in justification of need of the complex analysis of characteristics of personnel potential and indicators of economic activity for expeditious identification of a problem of excess of the actual average age of workers over its optimum value and search of ways of its decision at the enterprise of the coal industry.