Managing professional and qualification structure of highly qualified research personnel

In order to solve tasks related to managing highly qualified scientific personnel we need to have quantitative figures for such specialists in terms of territories, types of economic activities, affiliation and scientific specialization. Statistical reporting system does not have required data in necessary detail. Specific feature of thesis research allows for suggesting a corellation between professional and qualificational structure of personnel with candidate and doctoral theses and professional and qualificational structure of specialists working in the same environment. In order to test this hypothesis we used data on the number of candidate and doctoral theses defended during 2009-2014; number of staff members with academic degrees at higher educational institutions under the supervision of Ministry for Eucation and Science; number of specialists with academic degres in different branches in academic institutions. Analysis of share of specialists with candidate and doctoral degrees according to academic branches and share of candidate and doctoral degree holders at educational institutions under the supervision of Ministry for Education and Science has demonstrated such correlation. The same analysis was conducted for researchers from scientific organizations: institutes of Academy of Sciences, research institutions, design agencies, scientific and manufacturing structures and companies. Therefore a hypothesis of correlation between the structure of thesis defense structure and the professional and qualificational structure of personnel in these organizations was proven. Therefore on the basis of theses defense structure we can recreate professional and qualificational structure of staff members with academic degrees on the basis of integral meaning of their numbers. We calculated the share of staff members of all higher educational institutions in the Russian Federation and those institutions under supervision of the Ministry for Health Care and Ministry for Agriculture according to quantitave structure degree holders working in those structures. Suggested methods allow for evaluating academic potential of the region. Knowing the number of candidates and doctors of science in the region according to the population census, the structure of theses holders employed at organizations of the region we can get absolute numbers for candidates and doctors in each scientific specialization. As an example we made calculations for two regions of the Russian Federation: Republic of Tatarstan and Krasnodar region. Recreated professional and qualificational structure allows for evaluating scientific potential of the territory, prognosticating the need for highly qualified scientific personnel and is a basis for forming enrollment reference numbers for postgraduate courses in terms of branches and territories. The article is of interest for researchers and practitioners in the field of highly qualified scientific personnel management.