Pererva I. Rationing of innovative labor in the IT industry

The thesis is devoted to solving the scientific and practical task of developing and substantiating theoretical provisions, methodological support and practical recommendations for improving the rationing of innovative labor in the IT industry at the macro-, meso- and microeconomic levels. Theoretical background on the rationing of innovative labor in the IT industry is summarized, its definition is specified. The four types of innovative labor are distinguished based on the types of innovations and on the degree of regulation of the elements of labor: low-regulated product-oriented, low-regulated process-oriented, highly-regulated product-oriented and highly-regulated process-oriented. The peculiarities and principles of rationing of innovative labor in the IT industry are substantiated. There are two groups of main principles: general and specific. The general principles include: efficiency; comprehensiveness; systemic; objectivity; dynamism; science; concreteness; legitimacy; expediency. Specific principles include: considering the life cycle stage of an IT product; individual approach to the choice of rationing methods for each IT project; active involvement of industry experts in the process of standard setting and choice of method of regulation; flexibility and taking into account innovative changes in the production of the tools of IT specialists, as well as programming languages; iteration, which consists of periodic adjustments and changes in standards; the continuity of the IT customer feedback The functions of rationing of innovative labor in the IT industry at the macro-, meso- and microeconomic levels are determined. The main functions are: planning (planning and control), organizational, economic, managerial, social, legal, regulatory. The content of these functions varies based on the economic level. The analysis of social and demographic prerequisites for the innovative labor development and the monitoring of innovative activity in Ukraine are carried out. The characteristics of the specialists labor in the IT industry were determined. The research made it possible to build a profile of an IT specialist in Ukraine. Characteristics of IT specialists were determined and grouped by speciality, taking into account the values of hh-index and the level of wages, which allowed to distinguish the following four quadrants on the matrix: prestigious (which includes senior executives and top executives), attractive (which includes leading and highly qualified professionals),stable (includes mostly programmers and developers)and conservative (which includes other professionals such as system administrator, tester, etc.). The methodological support for the rationing of innovative labor in the IT industry has been improved. The advantage of it is the complexity due to the coverage of the three economic levels by the developed methodological approaches, such as: methodical approach to grouping of macroeconomic factors of influence on labor costs of innovative labor in the IT industry (macroeconomic level); the content and sequence of stages of determining the actual rates of innovation labor costs in the IT industry (meso and microeconomic levels); methodical approach to justification of the cost standards of innovative labor of IT industry specialists (meso and microeconomic levels).