With man’s appearance on the earth everything of his existence, functioning and development was provided by a targeted impact on the environment. Expressing this impact the process of setting and achieving goals is now defined as a universal management of the widest range of objects, most notably human society. Naturally, this process became a matter of practical observation, applied research, theory building, causing over time, formation of management science. The initiator, founder and organizer of the first in our country scientific school of management theory and of the Department, got in the beginning, the name “Scientific fundamentals of production management” of the Moscow Engineering Economic Institute, became doctor of economic Sciences, Professor Kozlova Olympiada Vasil’evna. She united and directed the research and teaching activities of scientists and practitioners to the design, development and application of holistic management theory. Today it has become one of the fundamental principles of presentation and development of contemporary management science.

The development of science and education is accompanied by the emergence of the need to incorporate the new knowledge that arises naturally in the theory and practice of economics. In higher education this is manifested by the inclusion of new disciplines in the educational program, the creation of new departments, ensuring the teaching of these disciplines. We need a convincing rationale for the selection of a new discipline, development of its content that reflects practical needs for new knowledge and their scientific significance, scientific basis. The chair of scientific basis of production management, which was formed at the initiative of the rector of the Moscow engineering and economic Institute, doctor of economic Sciences, Professor Kozlova Olympiada V., in the sixties, had to solve these problems. This amounted to a great and difficult work of formation of the concept of management as a new scientific direction in the prevailing complex social and economic sciences, reflecting both the needs of production development and trends in the development of scientific thought.

Systematizing the basic organizational statements, modern science is the base of structure and interaction in any of the studied area. In turn, submitted by the form, disclosed by the content and classified and determined organization becomes a necessary basis for the construction of any science, and each discipline. General organizational beginning of the formation and development of a system of knowledge, and the action, justify and represent a wide variety of scientific schools, based on mutual understanding of their organization. Formation of the organizational direction of the scientific school of management theory defines the scope of the fundamental notions of order, shape, structure, procedures and methods of construction, design and reflection of all existing and submitted to processes and systems.

Investigations carried out at the Department of the theory of management, are the development of theoretical works previously performed by teachers of the Department. The grant received by the Department from the Ministry of education, facilitated the preparation and production of tutorial, workshop and collection of tables and diagrams on the subject “Organizational behavior”. In the development of this area was prepared and released an updated textbook on discipline “The theory of organization and organizational behavior”. All this caused the necessity of modernization of the theoretical-methodological support the development of competences, taught by the Department of educational basis, the contents of which is presented by this article.

The self-government today is a qualitatively new phenomenon, which preserved just the old name in the new conditions of privatization of property and privatization of enterprises, the rapid development of its private form, as relevant part of measures for transition to market relations. Self-government as a phenomenon of social life has always been, what stages of development the society was. Externally, self-governing relations were presented in different forms, which suggest that in the differences in the forms it is necessary to see the uniformity of nature. In different nations in different countries, and in the same nation in different historical periods, there were different social roles of subjects and objects of management and government, and their social, ethical and legal status, and, therefore, relations with state authorities and management.

The article describes the need of formation and use of the organizational and economic mechanisms promoting strengthening of spiritual and moral components in the administrative environment. Besides, the special attention is paid to a question of interaction in the company which lays the foundation of valuable management of social and economic systems. Article is written on the basis of materials, received from the research work within the framework of the state task of the Ministry of education and science of the Russian Federation.

The article considers the scientific contribution of the department “Theory of Management” to the development of the concept of knowledge management. The department is one of the first in our country began to study a new area of management, including research, development of the first textbooks, training programs, the creation of the new training course “knowledge management”, publication of scientific articles and monographs in the new field of management.

The article analyzes current trends in the development of the scientific school of management theory. The author has tried to highlight the most important problem areas in the field of modern management. Focusing on the problems of cultural contents, functional management and processes of development, adoption and implementation of managerial decisions, the author examines the state and comes to the conclusion that modern management is need to be systematized, and sometimes to re-examine views.

The article represents the analysis of formulation and program of assignments of the President of the Russian Federation of 31 January 2013 in the field of regional development management.

This article describes the main developments and results of the emergence, formation and development of the scientific school of management theory. The article estimated place, role, contribution of the scientific school of State University of Management to the improvement and development of the theory and practice of management of the national economy of Russia.

One of the key resources of the organization and implementation of professional activity in any field of knowledge and the field of application is the inner motivation of the parties at its constant upgrading and improvement. Development and implementation of a format for life organization and conduct of professional development is fundamentally changing the understanding and attitudes of practicing managers to the place, role, and value of interaction with scientific and educational groups. This is most evident in establishing and maintaining their participation in the joint with the faculty of the University departments of scientific research, conferences and publications on an ongoing basis. First of all, it is typical for graduates of the graduate school, Ph.D. degree and continuing professional self-improvement, as a part of doctoral studies, and through independent programs. This generates obvious advantages of joint development of the sphere of professional management and scientific-educational environment.

The article is devoted to the activities of the Laboratory “Workshop stage action in the management” of the Department of control theory on the formation stage methodology in management education. Appeal to this modern practice gives the Manager a chance to be holistic in action and to work effectively in a modern crisis situation. The stage space of the game becomes the site of formation of organizational and managerial positions in a situation of uncertainty and learning resource is an organic action of one’s own physicality (body and voice). Stage methodology opens up a different horizon of management education towards organic management.

Being a structural division of the university, the Department of Theory of Management provides educational, methodical, scientific research, training of scientific and pedagogical staff and enhancing their skills. All of these activities are non-repeatable, intellectually filled, require a high creative activity, and therefore are in direct dependence on the human factor. The main activity of the department is the need to generate new ideas and transform them into reality. In the system of organization of this activity includes items such as the identification, attraction, retention and stimulation of creative workers, creation of all conditions for their use. In this regard, of paramount importance is the problem of reproduction of scientific potential of the department. The main source and transmitter of knowledge, new scientific ideas and concepts is creative team. Therefore, the most important aspect is the creation of conditions for attracting young professionals. This concern the activities of the department on preparation of scientific and scientific-pedagogical personnel.

Planning, preparation, defending doctorate thesis, not accidentally for the majority of onlookers seems to be an extremely complex, time-consuming, lengthy task, the formulation and the solution of which is not available for every researcher, the more serious the busy practice manager. The media, including foreign ones, traditionally prevailing public opinion steadily form an idea of what scientific degree of heads of large state or business organizations do not always result from the activities of their authors. A specific story about how, in the framework of the scientific school of management theory at the department of theory of organization and management of the State University of Management was prepared and defended the dissertation of doctor of economic sciences, acting prefect of the southeastern administrative district of Moscow, Zotov Vladimir Borisovich gives an exhaustive answer to this question.

A key role in the formation, functioning and development of modern social organization plays communication, as a basis to establish, maintain and develop constructive relationships, connections and interactions that ensure consistent and effective achievement of personal, group and social goals. The ability to install, functionally diversify and expand communication in and outside the organization, largely determined by the skill level of the leader, determined, first of all, by business and personal qualities of constructive interactive leader. Development of professional achievements of effective communication the founder and the first head of the department of scientific bases of management of the Moscow engineering-economic institute has formed at its creation, in the making and provides, for the past fifty years, deserved recognition, full support and the progressive development of ideas, effective creative collaboration of students, supporters and followers of the doctor of economic sciences, professor Olimpiada Vasilievna Kozlova.

The article analyzes the role of the doctor of economic sciences, Professor of Department of theory of management, honored worker of science of the Russian Federation Z.P. Rumyantsev in the development of the theory and practice of the Russian school of management; contribution to the training of the teaching staff. The article provides a wide range of real-world examples, professional characteristics, individual assessment of his joint work with the aspirate and students in the framework of formation and development of the scientific school of management theory. The authors share personal observations and impressions formed in the course of preparation and protection of dissertations on competition of a scientific degree of candidate of economic Sciences under the direct scientific leadership of Zinaida Petrovna Rumyantseva.

The article presented a brief description of the most salient features of founders, followers, students of the scientific school of the Department of theory of management of the State University of Management, who worked there for fifty years. Today the staff of the department gratefully remembers the contributions of notable scholars and practitioners in the shaping and development of the country’s first scientific school of management theory.