SOCIAL PARTNERSHIP AS A KEY ELEMENT FOR FUNCTIONING OF ECONOMIC ENTITIES

One of the effective tools for managing business entities in the development of a socially-oriented economy is a social partnership, as a special type of social relationship between an employer, employee and government representatives ensuring the coordination of interests of the parties. However, despite the importance of this tool in resolving issues of optimizing and stabilizing social and labor relations, the implementation of principles and tools of social partnership at the level of individual economic entities remains insufficient and their significance is not fully recognized by the employees of organizations and enterprises. The author studied whether the principles of social partnership are implemented at the level of an individual economic entity, what tools are used in managing the organization, and what is the attitude to social partnership on the part of employees and management. The study identified that the employees of an organization recognize the importance of using the social partnership to stabilize labor relations at all levels of the management hierarchy. The results of the study indicated the existence of an obvious connection between the education level and the professional and official position of employees, their attitude to social partnership, as well as the differences in the expectations and the implementation of employees’ expectations from the implementation of this tool. The author called a collective agreement an important and effective tool. The results of the study indicate the relevance and generally recognized necessity to use the principles and tools of social partnership in the management system of an economic entity, their expansion, improvement, and permanent development.