Features of Labor Behavior of Graduates of Postgraduate Studies in Russia

Abstract

A scientific study results comparing the basic scales of the MMPI test of young professionals focused on working in the academic field with the average scales of successful scientists and university teachers are presented. The methodological basis of the study was the methodology based on the standard interpretation of the basic scales of the MMPI test. The results obtained give every reason to question the effectiveness of measures taken in Russia aimed at rejuvenating the labor potential of academic organisations, since, in most cases, the profiles of university graduates who intend to develop their career trajectory in the academic field, when compared with the profiles of successful scientists and teachers, have relatively significant differences. The nature of these differences may contribute in the very near future to the modification of labor activity in creative organisations into a model where the quality of office work and strict compliance with all labor regulations will be considered as an effective variant of the personnel management system. The creative nature of the staff's work will be assessed as an undesirable deviation from the established labor regulations. To eliminate such a negative trend, it is necessary to conduct a PR campaign within the state to increase the social prestige of scientific and pedagogical activities in academic organisations. This will make it possible to attract talented young specialists to graduate school and further assign them to academic organisations and could successfully engage in creative activities and not those university graduates who could not "get a job" in commercial organisations or state (municipal) institutions.