UrBC, Yekaterinburg, December 28, 2016. Ural Vagon Zavod Corporation recently held a meeting on the introduction and implementation of job standards in the company’s personnel management system. According to the company press service, twenty-one heads of personnel departments from the corporation’s twelve member enterprises (Burevestnik Central Scientific Research Institute, Electromachine, ChTZ-Uraltrac, Omsktransmash, 144 BTRZ, and others) attended the event.

The meeting participants mostly talked about how to adjust to the recent legislative changes and how to introduce job standards at the company.

‘Our common goal is to become our respective markets’ leaders. This could only be achieved by making competitive intellectual and material goods, which means our staff’s skills become crucial,’ says Ural Vagon Zavod’s Deputy HR Director Irina Artamonova.

The corporation’s member enterprises are currently at different stages of the process. Kamensk-Uralsky Foundry Plant is ahead of others, with twenty-five job standards developed and introduced in the last 1.5 years. The head plant Ural Vagon Zavod is the only enterprise so far to come up with a formal methodology for introduction of job standards. The plant currently has ten job standards covering over 2,000 employees.