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Employees Of The Enterprise As The Main Internal
Threat Factor Affecting Economic Security
Abdualimov Ashraf Kurbonaliyevich
Doctoral Student Of The Department Of "Digital Economics" Denov Institute Of Entrepreneurship And Pedagogy, Uzbekistan
Received:
14 January 2025;
Accepted:
16 February 2025;
Published:
12 March 2025
Abstract:
This article discusses the impact of employees, one of the main internal threat factors affecting the
economic security of an enterprise. Internal threats posed by employees are studied, and the impact of direct and
indirect damage caused by employees on the enterprise is studied. The causes and extent of internal threats and
measures to eliminate them are studied. The impact of employees, their actions and the effective organization of
employee activities in ensuring the economic security of an enterprise are discussed.
Keywords:
Economic security, economic security of an enterprise, economic threat, employees, threat,
management, economic security of an enterprise strategy, economic security system of an enterprise, human
resources.
Introduction:
One of the main laws of the market
economy system is that the maximum profit limit is not
established. It is this law that is the basis for economic
entities to operate at the maximum level to obtain high
profits, which leads to the strengthening of
competition. Enterprises compete with each other in
the market to sell products and services. Where there
is competition, there is certainly development, as well
as risks and problems. At the micro level, enterprises
are required to build immunity against external and
internal factors that directly or indirectly affect them.
These risks and threats naturally create the economic
security of the enterprise.
Sources of threats are conditions and factors that have
a destructive nature. Both external and internal factors
can act as sources of threats to economic security at the
micro level:
—
conscious or unconscious actions of officials or other
business entities, such as competitors, employees,
unscrupulous partners, and government authorities;
—
absence or imperfection of the internal control
system;
—
a set of objective circumstances including the
state of the country's economy in general, the state of
the market network, political processes, natural and
man-made emergency situations, scientific and
technical development;
—
socio-economic conditions: demographic situation,
crime, level and scale of criminalization;
—
changes in credit policy, decrease in product
profitability, increase in supply and demand, decrease
in the investment attractiveness of the organization,
etc .
Of course, the manufacturer can lead the market with
the quality of its products and other advantages, but
the main issue facing the company now is the
important task of maintaining this leadership. The
comprehensive competitiveness of the enterprise in
the market depends on the measures taken to ensure
the economic security of the enterprise. Countries with
developed economies have already transitioned to a
full-fledged market system. The problem of business
security abroad is traditionally given great importance,
because the experience of managing a market
economy in developed foreign countries is much richer
than in Uzbekistan. At the same time, the economy of
Uzbekistan is different from the stable and consistently
developing economies of developed countries. That is
why Uzbekistan and other independent countries are
paying more and more attention to the issue of
economic security. After the privatization process,
ensuring the economic security of the enterprise will
become an urgent issue for the enterprises.
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LITERATURE REVIEW
The research and theories of L.I. Abalkin [1], S.Yu.
Glazyev [2], V.K. Senchagov [3] and other scientists in
the field of economic security are of great importance
for the development of the theory of economic
security. The works of N.N. Potrubach and S.V.
Stepashin [4] are devoted to various aspects of
economic security at the national level.
The issues of criminalization of the activities of business
structures are covered in detail by V. F. Gaponenko [5],
A. A. Krylov [6]. A number of studies by O. A. Grunin [7],
V. S. Gusev [8], N. V. Matveyev [9], V. N. Cherkasov [10]
and others are devoted to the problems of economic
security of entrepreneurship. Legal and organizational
aspects of activities to ensure the security of
enterprises, an integrated approach to ensuring the
security of enterprises were studied by V. P. Mak-Mak,
V. I. Yarochkin [11].
The problems of managing the economic security of
enterprises are addressed in the works of V. V.
Grebennikov [12], A. A. Zvyagin [13], S. L. Melamedov
[14] and others.
Also, O. G. Fokina [15] and O. P. Chechin [16] studied
the relationship between various elements of an
enterprise and its economic security.
However, in our opinion, more attention should be paid
to human resource management in the enterprise and
its impact on the economic security of the enterprise.
Sometimes the role of ensuring economic security in
the activities of the enterprise is limited to solving only
individual, private problems. Also, the sectoral features
of ensuring the economic security of enterprises are
almost not considered.
Solving some practical problems of ensuring economic
security is complicated by the lack of methodological
developments that take into account the organizational
and managerial characteristics of the work of
enterprises and the characteristics of the industry.
The authors of this book set themselves the following
tasks:
—
To propose a new approach to the study of the
economic security of enterprises, including more
precise definitions of this term and a description of
possible threats.
—
To formulate the principles of ensuring the economic
security of enterprises based on modeling individual
processes of their activities.
—
To identify the specific features of the industry that
affect the economic security of enterprises.
—
To propose a mechanism that will allow
implementing an integrated approach to organizing
work on ensuring economic security.
—
To identify ways to further develop this activity.
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
In carrying out the research work, methods of
knowledge, documentary analysis, economic analysis,
synthesis
and
generalization,
analysis
and
systematization of data based on primary and
secondary research are used. Generalized experience
and social practice reflecting objective laws, as well as
modeling of economic threat assessment to the
enterprise, were applied.
ANALYSIS AND RESULTS
Threats arising from employees in an enterprise are
usually divided into two categories: external and
internal. External threats include threats that do not
depend on the will and consciousness of the company's
employees, but can harm the organization. Internal
threats, unlike external threats, can arise due to
intentional and reckless actions of employees, which
can also lead to negative consequences for the
company.
External threats can manifest themselves in external
pressure on employees, the offer of more attractive
working conditions by competitors, employees
specially favored by competitors, inflationary
processes, family problems, etc. [17].
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Internal threats caused by employees [17]
Of course, negative external factors significantly affect
the work of the organization, especially its employees.
However, before looking for ways to prevent threats, it
is necessary to understand their causes. Let's look at
what factors can lead to a crisis and how to eliminate
them.
According to statistics, most crises occur through the
fault of management (about 71% of world crises occur
for this reason). The reason is that not all managers can
provide professional and competent personnel
management. In addition, the efficiency and
productivity of employees largely depend on the
manager [4].
Internal risks arising from the state of personnel include
the following risks:
1. Biological (age of employees, their mental and
physical health; physical capabilities).
2. Social (lack of motivation, loyalty, the presence of
interpersonal conflicts).
3. Moral (employee's beliefs, culture, moral values and
ethics).
4. Intellectual (education, intelligence, intellect and
knowledge).
5. Risk of distrust (negligence, dishonesty, reliability,
convictions).
According to the data presented in the economic crime
review of the analytical company Pricewaterhouse
Coopers (“PwC”), cases of abuse of office by officials
are observed in 60% of large enterprises in the CIS
countries, which is 30% higher than the world average.
This is 34% higher than in the countries of Central and
Eastern Europe.
This problem covers almost all sectors, in particular, the
share of the financial sector is 26%, industrial
production - 9%, pharmaceuticals - 8%. It is noted that
up to 80% of losses to the material assets of enterprises
are caused by their own employees .
Qualifications of middle and junior managers in the
field of economic and psychological aspects of
personnel management. Experts identify three main
components and parameters for assessing the
reliability of employees, namely psychophysiological,
professional
and
personal
reliability.
Psychophysiological reliability is determined by the
characteristics of the human div and psyche. A
particularly important characteristic for a potential
employee is the ability to maintain the ability to work
in stressful situations, physical and psychological
overloads without endangering the safety of the
enterprise. Professional reliability is characterized by
the level of professional knowledge, skills and
experience in a similar field, high business qualities,
loyalty to one's profession, developed corporate and
professional culture. Personal reliability is ensured by
the employee's conscientious attitude to work, his
moral principles and life principles, loyalty to the
company in terms of the social environment.
"Employee safety is a set of measures aimed at
preventing and eliminating threats and dangers
associated with the work and behavior of employees,
INSIDER THREATS INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:
— mismatch between the qualifications of employees and the requirements for them;
— poorly organized management and personnel training system;
— ineffective motivation system;
— errors in planning labor resources;
— reducing the number of rationalization proposals and initiatives;
— departure of qualified employees;
— redirection of employees to solve internal tactical tasks;
— lack of or ineffective organization of corporate policy;
— poor-quality screening of candidates when hiring.
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their intellectual potential and labor relations in
general, as well as negative consequences for the
economic condition of the company" .
The employee security system is the most important
component of the economic security of the enterprise,
because employees and workers are the main ones for
any of its components (financial, informational,
technical and technological, legal, environmental).
CONCLUSION
Ensuring the safety of personnel of an economic entity
includes two main directions of activity.
The first direction involves working with the
organization's employees and implementing measures
to increase the productivity of its employees. It is aimed
at managing personnel, minimizing risks and
neutralizing threats that affect the economic security of
the business entity due to insufficient qualifications of
employees, weak organization of the personnel
management
system,
selection,
training
and
motivation of the company's employees.
The second direction is the implementation of
measures to support and develop the intellectual
potential of the company. At the same time, the
intellectual potential can be characterized as a complex
of material and human elements. In turn, material
resources include intellectual property owned by a
particular enterprise and the rights to use it (for
example, patents and licenses). In other words, they
include rights to objects recognized as intellectual
property, which are subject to mandatory protection by
law. The knowledge accumulated in the enterprise, the
carriers of which are employees of this organization,
professional experience, skills and the company's
business reputation in foreign markets constitute a set
of human resources.
The specific features of ensuring the safety of
employees of an enterprise in Uzbekistan are based on
objective and subjective factors. Objective factors
include the following: the specific work mentality of the
citizens of Uzbekistan, the shortcomings of the current
legislation in terms of protecting the interests of
private entrepreneurship, and the coverage of a high
percentage is assumed.
Subjective factors include: the orientation of the
owners or top management of the organization to the
active use of unfair competition methods, the low level
of social orientation of the human resources policy of
the business entity, the ineffectiveness and inadequacy
of the human resources management system in the
organization.
A common strategic mistake of many domestic
employers is the wrong priority in choosing the
methods used to ensure the safety of their employees.
They prioritize methods of a control and repressive
nature aimed at identifying the facts of violations, other
forms of employee disloyalty and subsequently
punishing their perpetrators. At the same time, the
theory and practice of management requires to ensure
the principle of giving priority to preventive measures
that allow effective prevention of potential threats
instead of spending energy, time and money on
eliminating negative consequences.
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