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The scientifically substantiated theory and practice of transition to market relations, the principal aim of which is raising the part played by the human factor and creating a powerful system of motives and incentives inducing people to work well, will make it possible to achieve a deep renovation of all aspects of life in our society and to find the most modem forms of organization of the remuneration and stimulation of labor to a preliminary theoretical and analytic consideration, to which this section is devoted. Russia cannot function efficiently without finding new ways for the development of creative activity of masses. The most important problem now is to find the forms and methods for activating the human factor in the sphere of the social labor. It includes the solution of such problems as the change in the conditions, character and content of labor, a change in the customary concept of its organization, the search for new forms of stimulation, the raising of the responsibility for the final result. The problem of rational use of large manpower resources by activating the human factor is now in the foreground. Of paramount importance is the consideration of real possibilities of the social and economic development, and the acceleration of the scientific and technical progress on the basis of using the resources that lie in store in the human factor. For a long time, the role played by the human factor has been underestimated. Actually, the production existed and developed for the sake of production. The thesis of subordination of production to the tasks of the fullest development and employment of the abilities of people in the socially useful deeds was at the background. The consideration of the role of the human factor in economy has been reduced to the problems of labor forces and manpower resources. With this approach, people were regarded as the resources that can be formed, distributed, and utilized. The human factor is a multifaced phenomenon which has a political, economic, legal, socio- psychological, moral and other aspects. It expresses itself not in an abstract ability to work but in the development and active realization of creative forces of a working man. In the most general interpretation, the human factor can be determined as a natural, physical, social and intellectual potential of people participating in the production of material and spiritual values. The social trend of a certain type of public relations can be judged by the preference it gives in the national economy, whether it prefers an economic or a human factor. The natural scantiness of labor resources must not be regarded as an absolute limit of the economic development The scientific and technical progress whose principalfunction is the raising of labor productivity is the main condition o f overcoming the scantiness o f labor resources. All these problems have become more acute under the conditions of the deterioration of the general demographic situation in Russia. In the mid-1990s, according to the estimates of specialists, the growth of people capable of working will be less by about a factor of four as compared to the preceding decade. At present, the decelerating growth of people capable of working is balanced by the increase in the number of elderly people engaged. More than 12 million people retired on pension in 1980-90 than in the seventies. 3 1