Career advancement as a crucial condition for personnel development in enterprises during wartime

<jats:p>The article examines the problem of improving the theoretical foundations of career growth as both a process and a condition for the development of enterprises, taking into account the peculiarities and trends of the war period. The relevance of the article is due to the action of new factors of the war period, inherent in the labor market, the functioning and development of enterprises, which have not yet found a complete description of the content, a final explanation of the emergence and consideration in the process of career growth, therefore, the expansion of the main theoretical features of this process for their practical use requires improvement. Given these circumstances, the article’s purpose, tasks, object, subject, and research methods were formed. The main results presented in the article, which is characterized by scientific novelty, are as follows. The concept of personnel career is clarified using a systematic and comprehensive approach, under which it is proposed to understand the process of adaptation to the conditions of the internal and external environments of enterprises of statuses, belonging to the strata of society, professional positions, and roles to ensure the success of professional and social activities according to recognized criteria. In accordance with the new trends in the functioning of the labor market during the war period, a refined classification of career types has been proposed, which have been proven to be appropriate to include according to classification features: spatial – international, direction of movement of employees in the structure of the enterprise – inter-project, degree of compliance with planned tasks – urgent, shortage of employees of certain specialties and professions – jump-shaped, degree of use of moral principles – corruption, which should be avoided, but which exists. The principles of career growth management have been specified, which include: reliability of information; economic feasibility; justified efficiency; compliance with the goals of the enterprise’s activities; limited rationality and consideration of social responsibility of both the enterprise and the activities of employees; adaptability and timely clarification of methods for ensuring personnel development; ambidexterity; rational sufficiency. The goals, objectives, and methods for managing the career growth of enterprise personnel have been determined to be practical to take into account and use during the war period. Keywords: career growth; personnel; career; wartime; motivation; labor market trends; development; enterprise; goal, objectives, management methods.</jats:p>