Labor rationing is such a long-running process based on something like ministerial recommendations on labor rationing in organizations based on experimental statistical and analytical methods. A whole science, as it turns out.
But how can a business solve promptly the issues of determining a fair assessment of the value of piece-work, without getting involved in some kind of bureaucratic delays built on the principles of a planned economy?
If on the fingers, then the basic principle in labor rationing is as follows.
We determine the amount of production that an employee will be physically able to produce in a month, taking into account the required number of rest days during the month (weekends and lunch breaks in accordance with the law).
Let's say a baker can bake 1000 pies per month. The average monthly salary in the baker's industry is 50 thousand RUB.
So, we will show him the price for 1 pie, equal to 50 RUB (50 thousand RUB / 1000 pies). If you want to get more money, bake more, and if you bake less, you will get less.
With this approach, everything is quite subjective. Because in order for a rationer to correctly and objectively assess the labor intensity of any profession, he needs to at least visit the skin of a worker. And he clearly does not have the competencies of the one he evaluates.
The whole catch is in determining both the average monthly earnings of an employee for this type of activity, and the level of relative tension in work, at which the base rate is calculated.
Of course, you can refer to some industry standards and regulations, but this is not such a story, given today's dynamics in automation of work processes and the need for objective approaches to labor assessment.
In other words, with today's value system in labor rationing, it is important to correctly determine the golden mean in which an employee will not tear his navel and will be satisfied with the monetary reward received - such is the average level of the consumer basket.
It is quite difficult to understand on the basis of which approaches wages are formed for a particular piece-work profession in today's realities. If the average monthly salary for a profession restricts an employee's access to basic needs, this may be perceived as an injustice.
On the basis of which, for example, someone decided that the work of a seamstress is estimated at 50 thousand RUB, and a welder at 100 thousand. RUB when someone has set a certain amount of relevant work per month?
Labor is a fundamental element of cost, which should also have flexibility in management. With constant changes in technology and automation of production, the normalizer will not change these norms so that the employee, God forbid, does not finalize or, conversely, does not recycle, regarding what he will receive in money, with the actual norms and prices for them.
The level of prices today is shaped by the market, not by the organization where one or another employee works. If there is a shortage for a certain profession today, then the salary level should be appropriate, determined by the market, and not by the fact that, for example, he should not receive more than his boss. A shortage of an employee ultimately also leads to a higher price for the final product, which gives the organization the opportunity to potentially pay more for his work.
There should be a fairer value system in the rationing of labor, not based on some invented norms and prices for them.
It is the efficiency of the business and its solvency that should determine the additional premium to the employee's monetary remuneration to the minimum level at which he is ready to simply contain it if he sees some value in it for himself, what determines the level of overhead costs for business and a generally healthy level its labor costs and cost.
The current labor rationing system, firstly, is complex and useless. This is a kind of search for some kind of fair boundary for an objective calculation of wages without regard to the economic potential of the business in which people work. With this approach, everything is quite subjective, which means that this scheme may well give rise to a corruption component.
What is a more economically sound approach to the process of forming labor prices?
Without financial and economic business model it is almost impossible to do this.
The model can determine, taking into account the work of the business in market conditions, its economic capabilities to ensure labor costs. Based on the margin of safety - the difference between income and mandatory normalized expenses, together with the mandatory level of overhead costs for the remuneration of both pieceworkers and time workers, the amount of additional charges to the minimum that is already included in the overhead costs of the organization should be determined.
