THE CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK AND TENDENCIES OF PRODUCTIVE LABOUR DEVELOPMENT IN HIGH-TECH PRODUCTION
Introduction. In the context of increasingly sophisticated production processes, the ever increasing automation and robotization of enterprises, the study of the fundamentals of productive labour in combination with the possible change of the general management paradigm is of particular importance. The significance of high-tech production is dictated by the need to solve the strategic development tasks faced by the Russian Federation. Only the advanced enterprises, possessing unique technologies and powerful human resources, capable of manufacturing high-tech products, are able to ensure long-term competitive growth. The domestic military industrial complex can serve as an example of such enterprises. When solving the tasks, related to ensuring the security of the State and its allies, the enterprises of the complex sell some of the output in foreign markets, gaining significant income. As world practice shows, there are advanced technologies which are able to provide the enterprises with orders and protect them from competitors for a relatively long period. Unfortunately, the percentage of domestic enterprises in the innovative product market is small. This is mainly due to the low efficiency and backward material base of industrial enterprises. In this regard, it is necessary to trace the change in the conceptual framework of productive labour. Data and methods. The modern economy is an economy of ever increasing pragmatism. The significant lagging of Russia behind the leading economies in terms of the export of high-tech products is dictated by a number of objective and subjective reasons. The primary reason is the low level of productivity and the lag in the capital-labour ratio. The top 10 countries, led by China, have gone through a period of technological underdevelopment of industrial production and solved the problem of efficient work either long ago, or relatively recently. Meanwhile, Russia has yet to take this step. The second reason is the «productivity loop», the essence of which consists in the owners' disinterest in raising labor productivity due to the fear of losing part of the profits through price reduction in the absence of a growing demand for products. The market, however, cannot grow with high costs of inefficient production. Results obtained. The problems of labour productivity increase should be considered only within the framework of a new concept. Especially, it concerns the advanced, the most innovative industries. The idea of the intellectual interaction of production factors consists in the fact that a person is not viewed as a part (even, the main one) of the production process, while a machine is regarded as an intellectual element of a high-tech process. Machines almost completely assume the function of transforming the objects of labour, while the releasing labour energy of the personnel is directed to the intellectual support and maintenance of the production process. As a result, there is only highly productive labour, since its quantitative component, determining the efficiency, is practically unlimited (limited by market capacity only) and directly interrelated with the qualitative component, i.e. the intellectual interaction and maintenance of the production process. Conclusion. The concept of intellectual interaction of the productive forces is essential for highly developed economy, the availability of highly intellectual labour resources, the advanced high-tech production, and the absence of protectionism.