SHKLOV, 9 August (BelTA) – The best Soviet human resources management practices should be adopted. Belarus President Aleksandr Lukashenko gave the relevant instructions during a government conference held in Shklov on 9 August to discuss the efficient development of agricultural production, BelTA has learned.
There are problems with finding candidates for executive positions in Belarusian agricultural enterprises. Aleksandr Lukashenko encouraged looking into offices of government agencies among other places since there are too many specialists over there at times. “While we lack one or two heads of agricultural enterprises in the district. The first place to find them. It applies to everyone,” he noted.
At the same time the president urged to put more efforts into personnel retention on the ground. Mandatory job assignment after graduation from a higher education institution should be accompanied by certain stimuli for young specialists. “Since there are problems with specialists, well, you have to court them,” Aleksandr Lukashenko said.
The third thing the head of state encouraged is to maintain discipline as a whole and technological discipline in particular. “The head of an agricultural enterprise holds a shift meeting and gives out assignments. If someone fails to carry them out… We know such individuals. Every agricultural enterprise has two or three people like that,” the president said. “These careless attitudes to work must be eliminated. The Communist Party was a deterring factor back in the day. If you are expelled from the Communist Party, then you will be fired and your entire life will be ruined.”
“Wars start with economy. This is why I always remind you: it is better to work quietly in a quiet and calm country than fighting a war. We should quietly move away from this crazy market. I emphasize once again that this market doesn’t exist. Americans forced it upon us. They can do anything. Because they can print money if they are short. We cannot do that.”
“If good specialists, human resources are available, then you will have results. And you need performance discipline for that. And technological discipline as a minor detail. If it is a requirement, then you have to sow crops at this time. You have to apply as much fertilizer as the standard requires,” the head of state stressed.
Speaking about human resources, Aleksandr Lukashenko drew attention to contract commitments: “You get a civilized contract. Obligations of the chairperson of the district executive committee specified by the state on one hand. Obligations of the executive on the other hand,” he said. “The president’s personnel pool, the oblast governor’s personnel pool. He has the power to assign jobs, authorize employment, and so on. Without this laxness.”
“Everything I say comes from Soviet experience. We should borrow the best practices from it, including the management of personnel resources and so on,” the Belarusian leader added.
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