METHODOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF ASSESSMENT OF PERSONNEL PROFESSIONAL CREATIVITY
The content of professional creativity as the ability of personnel to show directed creativity within specified conditions is revealed. The methodological features of assessment of personnel professional creativity as a basis of creative potential of the organization are investigated. It is concluded that in order to improve the efficiency of personnel management it is necessary to improve the existing analytical tools. The authors offered six-step approach for «creative al pari» assessment (i. e. of the correspondence of creative potential to professional creativity profile): (i) identification of key parameters of personnel professional creativity (i. e. flexibility, originality, curiosity, interdisciplinary erudition, systems thinking and cross-sectoral communication); (ii) development of professional creativity profiles, which are a set of normalized values of key parameters of professional creativity, taking into account the importance for each group or individual positions; (iii) development of k -tasks for an assessment of the level of personnel professional creativity, each of which requires a person under test to display to a certain extent key parameters of creativity; (iiii) k -tasks performance by personnel and assessment of individual results; (iiiii) profile of personnel professional creativity formation (on the basis of linear programming methods the authors develop a model that allows for determining the level of each key parameter of professional creativity according to the results of k -tasks performance); (iiiiii) «creative al pari» assessment. The authors reveal the features of invidual «creative al pari» assessment based on the utility function, and organization-wide «creative al pari» assessment that allows for determining an absolute, conditional or critical discrepancy between the personnel creative potential and the profile of professional creativity of the organization, as well as suggest the possibility of application of the developed approach in employment, requalification or personnel development.