A theoretical review of modern approaches to labor productivity management

There are many studies on labor productivity management that deal with the same set of theoretical tools. This research analyzes the existing approaches in this regard and tries to find out the new methods to increase labor productivity. As a rule, scientists propose to improve labor productivity by searching for hidden resources in companies, influencing the employees, and changing the corporate environment. At the same time, production issues and organizational and economic modeling are overlooked. An attempt is made to fill this gap. In addition to the analysis of each theory, the scientific substantiation of the need to develop an integrated approach, the author complements the toolkit by an organizational and technical (production) approach. Besides, the research substantiates the efficiency of authoritarian methods and in some cases the urgent need to use them while managing a company. A range of theoretical approaches considered and supplemented by the author can be successfully applied to develop techniques for achieving sustainable growth of labor productivity indices in Russian companies. The paper is a part of a large-scale scientific study on the problem of labor productivity management.