Staff motivation systems as a tool of corporate planning in innovative companies in early development phases

The relevance of the research results from the urgent need to understand the specificity of labor motivation systems as a tool of corporate planning, forming in innovative companies in early phases of their development. The article contains theoretical justification for the problem under consideration, including analysis of conceptual apparatus for the investigated subjects and classification of the main methods of motivation concerning the development of stimulation system for a startup members. The article also contains a presentation of empirical research conducted by the author through questioning the founders and the staff of 50 startups and innovative project teams, who presented their projects at the XI Russian Fair "The Russian capital for Russian innovations". The author analyzed the motivation systems used in modern Russian innovative startups, namely, the main ways to motivate staff, the level of employees' satisfaction with applied methods, staff preferences in choosing the ways of stimulation. On the one hand, on the basis of the experimental study it was concluded that the issues of employee motivation in innovative companies in early phases of their development include the basic principles of personnel management. On the other hand, in the case of young companies, there is a number of features, such as: segmentation of wages into fixed and variable components, the latter depending on the personal contribution of each employee to innovative development of the organization; using indirect methods of financial motivation; influence of founders' personal culture on entrepreneurial culture of their staff and on staff's commitment to the business idea; participation of employees in a company's results. All this together suggests the need for using combined payment schemes based on employees' contribution to innovative activities.