Regional Social Infrastructure Management as the Instrument for Improving the Quality of Life in the Ural Federal District
The article analyzes the processes of the social sphere and the effective operation of social infrastructure in order to improve the quality of life of the population in the Russian regions. Particular attention is paid to the role of the organizational and managerial component affecting usage per...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Economics of the Ural Branch
2015-09-01
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Series: | Экономика региона |
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Online Access: | http://www.economyofregion.com/archive/2015/56/2651/pdf/ |
Summary: | The article analyzes the processes of the social sphere and the effective operation of social infrastructure in order to improve the quality
of life of the population in the Russian regions. Particular attention is paid to the role of the organizational and managerial component
affecting usage performance of infrastructure objects and including regulation of the institutions of social infrastructure, planning and
software. The purpose of the study is to evaluate the effectiveness of management of social infrastructure through the conjugation of
immediate results (the dynamics of indicators of social services) and outcomes (parameters of the quality of life of the population). The
hypothesis of the study was the violation of the principle of infra-systematicity in the infrastructural support of the improvement of the
quality of life in the Russian regions, due to the lack of effectiveness of public administration. In the study, the following methodological
approaches are used: structural, factoral, systematic and evolutionary approaches to justify the conception, develop methodology and
determine the impact of changes in the parameters of social infrastructure availability for the provided services, shifts in indexes of
quality of life. The paper proposes the quantitative evaluation of the effectiveness of organizational management based on the diagnosis
of the adequacy of the implementation of the principle of infra-systematicity in the functioning of social infrastructure on the basis of
the elasticity coefficient. The proposed approach and the received analytical data on health, education, commerce, housing, culture
and sport fields have allowed to range the regions of the Ural Federal District and highlight the areas of insufficient effectiveness of
the organizational and management tool for improvement of life quality. The findings of the research may serve as a core for practical
recommendations for executive bodies of administrative units of the Russian Federation and adjustment of socio-economic policy. |
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ISSN: | 2072-6414 2411-1406 |