SCIENTIFIC AND APPLIED APPROACHES TO CATEGORIZING AND CLASSIFYING NON-PEDAGOGICAL STAFF FOR OPTIMIZING STAFF STRUCTURE AT MUNICIPAL BUDGETARY EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTIONS

Abstract

The article describes the challenges of categorizing and classifying non-pedagogical staff in municipal budgetary educational institutions (MBEIs). The research hypothesis of the study is that the development of legislative normative acts at the federal level will ensure the regu-latory management of categorization and classification processes at the MBEIs level, realize a single concept and methodology, and unify the interregional and intraregional structure of staff schedules on the basis of a legally approved list of positions by categories of non-pedagogical employees. The study aims to develop proposals for eliminating regulatory prob-lems in categorizing and classifying non-pedagogical staff of MBEIs. Using systematic and comparative analysis methods, the authors identified a lack of regulatory integration, meth-odological inconsistency between federal, departmental and regional regulatory acts that are mandatory for regulating the optimal staffing level at MBEIs. Based on the results of the structural analysis, the authors diagnosed normative and methodological uncertainty at the local, regional and interregional levels regarding the distribution of positions by specific cat-egories of personnel at MBEIs. This uncertainty is manifested by an imbalance in the number of non-pedagogical employees. To solve these problems, the article proposes a new method of categorizing personnel to clarify the normative classification of positions and professions within the MBEI staff structure. This new method is based on the functional interaction of employee groups within the educational process. The practical significance of the personnel categorization system is its potential use at the regional and interregional levels to develop uniform approaches to the concept and methodology that unify the staff structure of educa-tional institutions. This system considers the results of labor rationing to achieve optimal staff ratios within the categories and qualifications of MBEI non-pedagogical personnel.