Clarification of the definition of personnel development

The article considers the relevance of personnel development. Analysis of the theoretical points of view of scientists and practical experience on the concept of "personnel development" leads us to the conclusion that basically development is considered synonymous with training. On the other hand, the variety of options for defining this concept leads us to the need to give it. It is proposed to use the classic definition of the concept of "development" to obtain the definition of "personnel development." The study establishes that the definition should specify a vector of changes in the organization's activities that would correspond to the characteristics of the concept of "development," for example, such as "qualitative change in state," "stability of changes" or "exogeneity/endogeneity of changes." Three options were identified to determine the specified vector of enterprise changes: 1) organizational maturity; 2) value chain; 3) compliance with the characteristics of the concept of "development" taking into account the results of the SWOT analysis of a particular enterprise.