Justification of the company’s social security and its security mechanism in conditions of risk-taking.

Abstract

The article analyzes main approaches to the definition of the "social security" concept in the theory of social systems security, theory of society’s social security and theory of social security of the individual. It is proved that security involves not only maintaining the status quo, but also creating opportunities for reaching a new, qualitatively higher level of development. Essence of the concept "social security of enterprise", which is characterized by satisfaction and development of the social interests of workers and enterprise and provided by creation of a system of mutually beneficial partnerships between staff and management of the enterprise, the culture of compromise, confidence, harmonization of social relations and the continuous development of personal and collective potential, is specified. It is proved that to achieve social security of enterprises is necessary to ensure the security and development of social system due to the appropriate level of personal and collective capacities and quality of social relations, which is determined by the level of trust and solidarity in the collective. Trust and solidarity ensure social integrity. It is proved that an important task of social security management in the enterprise is to develop a social security mechanism. The components of this mechanism are considered. It is indicated that the main component of social security mechanism is a set of social interests of the enterprise and employees, the implementation of which can be counteracted or interfered with the threats. Environmental factors are also identified as affecting on the social security: political, economic and socio-cultural. Laws, regularities and principles, which must be foundation of social security mechanism, are presented. The necessity of integrated application of institutional, economic, social, psychological and educational methods, tools, instruments and leverage, which are responsible for the ability of the system to be in a state of social security and allow to harmonize the interests of enterprises and workers, is substantiated. The prospects of further studies of authors are defined.