EVALUATION OF PERSONNEL AT JSC «RUSSIAN RAILWAYS»

The concept of «valuation» is a general scientific category and means the determination of the price, the value of something (someone). Personnel assessment has existed since ancient times, since the advent of hired labor, but comprehensive and systematic studies of personnel assessment as a cross-cutting backbone function in personnel management have appeared relatively recently, in the last 15-20 years. Large commercial companies have been most successful in this kind of activity in Russia, the generalization and systematization of their practical experience with the possibility of recommending its dissemination is an urgent goal of this scientific study.Changes in the geopolitical conditions of companies' life create the need to introduce the values adopted in Russian society into the indicators for evaluating employees and pay special attention to them. The article classifies employees based on their contribution to the company's activities and its result. In educational and scientific literature, there are various views on the concept of "personnel assessment", the article gives some of them, analyzes them and formulates the concept of "personnel assessment" on the basis of the integration of various points of view.Personnel assessment is a system in the personnel management system and contains such elements as: subject, object, methods and models, factors, indicators, scales, criteria. These elements are universal in themselves and have an individual embodiment in each company. This article examines the elements of personnel assessment at Russian Railways and proposes a systematic view of personnel assessment. Among the methods used in modern Russian companies for personnel assessment, there are well-known, traditional ones, such as: testing, questionnaires, conversations, certification, and modern ones based on a competency-based approach: assessment center, 360 degrees, on-line surveys. Russian Railways employs state-of-the-art methods to assess an employee's suitability for corporate requirements as a whole, to determine the professionally necessary and important qualities for the work performed, to measure results and work experience, as well as mobility to change. The article provides a generalized.The addition of economic knowledge in the field of terminology in management is of theoretical significance, the development of a generalized competency model and a systematic presentation of practical experience in personnel assessment at Russian Railways are of practical value.