Keyword: «microeconomic approach»

The article presents the experience of cultivating lean manufacturing and systemic formation of micro-rationalization skills among students of secondary vocational education system based on a microeconomic approach in the process of design and creative activity in cooperation with mentors who are responsible for practical training at companies. The authors give examples of microrationalization in the classroom of theoretical and practical training including preparation for WorldSkills competitions and championships. The relevance of the problem is due to the need to make a graduate ready for work in the conditions of modern innovatively developing production, when the most important component of the company’s competitiveness is a constant increase in the quality of manufactured products based on increasing labor productivity in the process of mass creative rationalization activities of employees. The purpose of the article is to present some forms, means and methods of cultivating lean manufacturing, formation and development of creative rationalization skills among students of the secondary vocational education system based on a microeconomic approach to activity and to work out a definition of the "microrationalization" concept. The main approaches to the study – systemic activity-oriented, differentiated, personality-oriented, dual-creative ones. They set a new direction in the training of workers and mid-level specialists, which positively affects the quality of training, the competitiveness of graduates in the modern labor market, and their social security. The main results consist in the scientific substantiation and practical testing of the methodology for the formation of micro-rationalization skills and determining the prospects for further research on the problem of the formation of the rationalization activity among students of secondary vocational education system on the basis of a microeconomic approach. The theoretical significance of the study lies in the fact that the concept of "microrationalization" has been introduced into the conceptual system of vocational education and the results of the study allow us to outline the prospects for further research on this problem, which consist in creating scientifically based methods of developing creativity based on a microeconomic approach to activity and to outline ways of studying the creative activity of students of secondary vocational education. The practical significance lies in the development of scientific and methodological support for the process of formation of creative microrationalization skills among students of the secondary vocational education system in the form of a set of practical tasks used in preparation for WorldSkills competitions and championships, which can be useful for vocational education teachers. This study was conducted on the basis of Ulyanovsk State Pedagogical University named after I.N. Ulyanov, Ulyanovsk Vocational Pedagogical College, Ulyanovsk Automobile Plant (JSC "UAZ"), Blagoveshchensk State Pedagogical University, Verkhnepyshminsky College of Mechanics and Technology "Yunost".