Introduction.

   Humanitarian Center is a scientific, research and consulting organization, which specializes in the sphere of firm’s projecting and development through the changes of their management structure and productivity, personnel’s selection and training, the modeling of the system of their interaction with clients. First of all, we work with really acting and market-orientated organizations: manufactures, commercial firms, human and educational funds, financial companies, higher education establishments and so on.

The History.

   Humanitarian Center was founded by a group of psychologists - practitioners in 1989 in Kharkov as an ungovernmental organization – a subsidiary of Applied Psychology Center (Saint – Petersburg State University, Russia). At the beginning of its work it was orientated on the investigations of CP NPS (the Control Panel of Nuclear Power Stations) operators’ work in uncertain situations to develop professional training program. Since 1991 Humanitarian Center has been working in the sphere of staff’s assessment, selection and training for business – structures and privatized manufactures. In 1994 we became an independent organization.

For 10 years of our work on the market Humanitarian Center has provided stable interactions with 40 companies of Russia, Ukraine, and Lithuania.

At present we have a wide range of different projects.

   We study the labour market, labour values in the transitional period of economy, work out the policy of personnel’s management, hold staff’s assessment and testing. We have a rich experience in elaboration of methods of personnel’s selection and assessment.

We deal with the market investigation. Particularly, we worked out and held some advertising campaigns on the market of industrial machinery, electronics, auto spares and so on. We elaborate methods and modeling of special oriented texts, investigate communication in the natural language. In this sphere we have some scientific publications and practical elaborations.

Our Center studies and analyzes customers’ behaviour, deals with behavioral and psychographical segmentation, with organizing of a strategy and methods of sale, its stimulation, and so on.

We deal with restructuring of former state and now privatized organizations, planning of their structure, the rise of their productivity, the inculcation of effective management structures and business – communication. Humanitarian Center is interested in scientific investigations of missions and cultures of modern business structures (organizational concepts) for the real sector of economy.

Humanitarian Center has a specialization on conducting of post high educational programs with the aim of adaptation of such groups of people, who have high education but could not find their place on the market (e.g retired offices). For this aim we together with Saint – Petersburg State University founded the Specialized Department of post high education in “Organizational Psychology”. Its educational program contains more than 1400 academic hours.

Our Center takes an active part in scientific investigations in the sphere of organizational psychology, carries out cross – cultural, organizational psychological researches. Also we are going to publish scientific literature in organizational and economical psychology, psycholinguistics, in personnel’s training and management.

Humanitarian Center’s programs on personnel’s selection and specialized department are licensed according to Ukrainian State standard.