Social Activity of Human Resource as a Basis of Effective Social Policy
6 Pages Posted: 14 Mar 2018
Date Written: February 16, 2018
Abstract
Social policy as a set of principles, legal norms, activities and institutions, aimed at creating conditions that ensure the quality of life of the citizens of a country, is an expression of the social relations between the state and its citizens. Social policy determines safety (social, health, economic) and security of the individuals in society. That is why it is defined as "a philosophy, ideology, program to impact on demographics, employment of the population, level, lifestyle and quality of life of the population, its income level and structure of consumption of material and cultural wealth,... forms of social security, social services of the population,...provision of a targeted state aid to the most unprotected, vulnerable and poor parts of the population...the measures, aimed at creating conditions for self-protection, in order to maintain and raise the level of welfare...".
It is noteworthy that the scope of social policy includes a wide range of concepts (social protection, social security, social support, social self-protection, social assistance, quality of life) as defined in the said publication. Therefore, the content of social policy includes concrete actions of public authorities and non-state institutions, public associations, related to the implementation of tactical and strategic tasks aiming at harmonization of the public relations. Since in the basis of these relations are the people with their actions and skills, they become a crucial factor of the social policy. It synthesizes and multiplies the remaining components of the resources of a country and thus turns them into a finished product in the planning of the goals of socio-economic development, enabling an effective social policy.
Keywords: social programming, social economy, social efficiency, social policy
JEL Classification: M10,M20,M54
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