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DOI: 10.15507/1991-9468.029.202502.422-444

UDC 378.1

Integrating Skills and Education to Boost Individual Productivity

Ilya A. Korshunov
Cand.Sci. (Chem.), Chief Researcher, Deputy Director of Lifelong Learning Laboratory, Institute of Education, HSE University (11 Pokrovskii Bulvar, Moscow 101000, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0706-0308, Scopus ID: 57201132401, Researcher ID: Q-8721-2018, SPIN-code: 5543-7218, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Anna G. Eregina
Cand.Sci. (Sociol.), Researcher of Lifelong Learning Laboratory, Institute of Education, HSE University (11 Pokrovskii Bulvar, Moscow 101000, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0009-0008-4630-8453, Researcher ID: JMQ-4089-2023, SPIN-code: 7714-7570, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Ivan A. Andronov
Graduate Student, HSE University (11 Pokrovskii Bulvar, Moscow 101000, Russian Federation), ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4924-1182, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Abstract
Introduction. Despite access to modern technologies, the issue of labor productivity in the Russian Federation remains unresolved to its full extent. Consequently, identifying skill sets as outcomes of scientific and pedagogical activities, for which training is prioritized to increase the productivity of existing and newly created jobs, becomes increasingly relevant. The aim of this research is to identify a set of skills, the development of which impacts individual productive labor activity, as well as to identify high-performance managerial practices in the workplace that enable a significant improvement in an employee’s individual productivity.
Materials and Methods. The article is founded on foreign and domestic data from theoretical and empirical studies of skills for productivity increasing.
Results. The authors have identified four areas of the most relevant skills for increasing individual productivity: skills for a high-tech workplace; skills in managing socio-emotional and psychological condition; skills in managing of social environment for creating of a high-performance work system; entrepreneurial skills (agency) for the formation of a new field of strategic action.
Discussion and Conclusion. Skills’ development should include the training of all skills’ groups: cognitive, hard, soft, “green”, entrepreneurial. Special attention should be paid to the productive socio-emotional condition regulation, that depends both on the internal individual causes and on the creators’ skills of the of the social fields of strategic action.

Keywords: productivity, education, hard and soft skills, organization management, strategic action

Conflict of interest: The authors declare no conflict of interest.

For citation: Korshunov I.A., Eregina A.G., Andronov I.A. Integrating Skills and Education to Boost Individual Productivity. Integration of Education. 2025;29(3):422–444. https://doi.org/10.15507/1991-9468.029.202503.422-444

Authors’ contribution:
I. A. Korshunov – oversight and leadership responsibility for the research activity planning and execution; formulation of research goals and aims; specifically critical review.
A. G. Eregina – conducting a research and investigation process; specifically writing the initial draft; specifically critical review.
I. A. Andronov – conducting a research and investigation process; specifically writing the initial draft.

Availability of data and materials. The datasets used and/or analysed during the current study are available from the authors on reasonable request.

All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.

Submitted 30.01.2025;
revised 29.04.2025;
accepted 06.05.2025.

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