Abstract
This article aims to study the problems of material incentives for labor in education in the general motivation system of Kazakhstani universities’ teaching staff. In current conditions, when there is simultaneously an increase in demand for higher education and a decrease in the social status and prestige of a teacher, the improvement of organizational and economic mechanisms for stimulating the work of the teaching staff should come to the fore. The article analyzes the level of wages in the education system, which for a long time lags behind the average level of wages in the country’s economy. This fact significantly undermines the incentives to work in the field of education, which, in turn, determines the quality of education. The limitations of the existing system of material incentives for the work of the teaching staff in modern universities are revealed. The necessity of managing labor motivation based on various types of incentives for teachers to achieve higher and better results of labor activity is shown. The study used secondary statistical data from official sources and traditional methods: graphical, system analysis and synthesis, the method of scientific observation, comparison, etc.