Integrating Skills and Education to Boost Individual Productivity

Introduction. Despite access to modern technologies, the issue of labor productivity in the Russian Federation remains unresolved to its full extent. Consequently, identifying skill sets as outcomes of scientific and pedagogical activities, for which training is prioritized to increase the productivity of existing and newly created jobs, becomes increasingly relevant. The aim of this research is to identify a set of skills, the development of which impacts individual productive labor activity, as well as to identify high-performance managerial practices in the workplace that enable a significant improvement in an employee’s individual productivity. Materials and Methods. The article is founded on foreign and domestic data from theoretical and empirical studies of skills for productivity increasing. Results. The authors have identified four areas of the most relevant skills for increasing individual productivity: skills for a high-tech workplace; skills in managing socio-emotional and psychological condition; skills in managing of social environment for creating of a high-performance work system; entrepreneurial skills (agency) for the formation of a new field of strategic action. Discussion and Conclusion. Skills’ development should include the training of all skills’ groups: cognitive, hard, soft, “green”, entrepreneurial. Special attention should be paid to the productive socio-emotional condition regulation, that depends both on the internal individual causes and on the creators’ skills of the of the social fields of strategic action.