The article shows the role of mentoring in education; the experience of developing and testing a project of prolonged support for a novice teacher as an effective practice of mentoring is presented.

Meanings in activity predetermine the direction of human behavior in social and labor relations; it is no coincidence that the interdisciplinary concept of meaning, which was initially studied mainly in psychology, cultural studies, and philosophy, has been updated in recent years in the context of social management in connection with the phenomenon of leadership (spiritual, inspirational, transformational, ethical, etc.). The role of modern leaders and managers is being transformed, integrating the functions of a coach, mentor, and the sphere of managerial influence includes issues of meaning-making, thereby transforming the situation of managerial interaction into a situation of meaning-making. The formation of a system of meaningful management interaction at enterprises and organizations involves paying attention to the personality of the employee, creating conditions for multi-subjective dialogue, which becomes possible with the development of areas of human-oriented management.

The paper argues that understanding cryptocurrencies’ essential characteristics and dynamics will help sociologists analyze contemporary society. The article begins with an overview of the stages in the development of cryptocurrency. Then, the authors discuss several questions about cryptocurrency as a phenomenon and a research problem. In what follows, they focus on Bitcoin, the first and most noticeable cryptocurrency introduced to society’s socio-economic life, and consider the key differences between Bitcoin and traditional currency. The paper concludes with a discussion of how the developments of cryptocurrencies and artificial intelligence technologies are interrelated in the age of ‘artificial sociality.’

The article presents an analysis of the current staffing problems of the national higher education. Based on statistical data and the results of scientific research, the following problems are described: insufficient wages, low prestige of scientific and pedagogical work, personnel shortage, excessive workload of teachers, quality of the qualification structure of the teaching staff, violation of the continuity of scientific and pedagogical schools and a decrease in the quality of research and teaching activities. As a result of revealing the causal links between them, a tree of personnel problems of the Russian higher education system has been developed.

In recent years, the social policy of the state has been aimed at increasing the welfare of the country's population, social partnership of various professional, qualification and status groups of employees of enterprises and organizations in achieving the goals of production and economic activity, social protection of poorly provided groups of the population, including large families, children left without care parents and disabled people. To a lesser extent, social policy is associated with the development of human potential, which plays an ever-increasing role in the formation of qualitatively new social relations, the use of modern technologies and means of managing production and economic processes. The article focuses on the main features of the development of human potential, the definition of the criterion and indicators characterizing it in modern Russia.

The article discusses the effectiveness of implementing corporate information systems in an enterprise in the 21st century. The research presents the main advantages and disadvantages of implementing CIS, as well as methods for project management and integration with other systems. The importance of analyzing the needs of the enterprise and choosing the right technologies to achieve maximum effectiveness in the implementation of CIS is emphasized.

The article is devoted to the study of the influence of corporate culture on staff motivation. It examines the main components of corporate culture, its role in improving the efficiency of employees and strengthening team spirit. The experience of large companies that have successfully implemented programs for the formation of corporate culture is also presented. The author emphasizes that corporate culture is an important factor in staff motivation and can become a key competitive advantage of the company in the labor market.

This article analyzes the psychological and pedagogical literature on the issue of the psychological prerequisites for the professional self-determination of young people. The main factors and stages of professional self-determination are determined. The factors of professional self-determination are self-esteem, formed value orientation, career orientation, the presence of internal motivation for choice, personal career planning, the level of requirements, inclinations, the level of personal general abilities and special abilities, such as sustainable motivation, professional shyness. It was revealed that professional self-determination is the main problem of adolescence, which means that young people have two types of information: on the one hand, about the entire professional world, about the requirements of each profession, and on the other hand, about themselves, professionalization. The process of professional self-determination is considered as a continuous personal path on which a person determines professional activity for himself. Young people determine the professional activities to which they are inclined based on personal qualities and various factors. A characteristic psychological prerequisite for the readiness of high school students for a certain choice of a future profession is precisely the formation of value orientations, a pronounced individual career orientation, and the presence of internal motivation for choice.