Modern industrial management as a form of historical development of social management

Development of engineering and technology accumulates small changes, which when reaching a cer-tain critical mass provide an impetus to the transition to a new technological order. Formation of new techno-logical orders, in its turn, encourages development of the economic sphere. As a result, new industries, forms of management and new business areas appear. This entails development of the processes of separation, co-operation and coordination of social labor and economic activity. Under the influence of these processes, formation of a new system of social labor management takes place, which gives a strong impetus to produc-tivity and efficiency being improved. Since the primitive society, the process of development of social labor management forms has been proceeding in a spiral. In the course of the process, the knowledge accumulated turned into appropriate practical tools and techniques, which were subsequently distributed and improved. With the advent of scientific management, new forms of social labor management have been being prepared by the relevant theoretical research and best practices generalization. These studies form theoretical and methodological bases for the next stage of management science development, and develop the necessary tools, technologies and mechanisms for managing social systems (organizations) under the new historical and economic conditions. Using general scientific methods of research allows us to conclude that we are on the verge of forming a new form of industrial management - postindustrial - which appears to be a specific historical form of social control. At the same time, the organization management system objectively becomes most important intangible asset and a strategic competitive competence of organizations. In view of these circumstances, an idea is put forward that business success in the 21st century will be determined not only by achievements in the development of production technology, but also to a large extent by the level of industri-al organization management development, knowledge of regularities and principles of its transformation from the instrumental scheme of the structure control to its most important strategic intellectual resource and a key factor in competitive success.