No 2 (2008)

The article given represents the brief review of historic role and place of the so called «soft» managerial technologies within the context of economic democracy («participative economy» model) dealing with the fundamental problem of raising both managerial and administrative efficiency and effectiveness taken as a whole. The basic mechanisms of managerial impacts under the conditions of globalization processes and Information Age challenges are being considered. Thus strategic priorities for Russian socio-economics, PA and PM spheres are being highlighted.

The article demonstrates that realization of social functions in corporate governance increases the corporate competitiveness as the basis to economy development. It marks out several important social functions of modern Russian corporations. It's stressed that institution of corporation regulates not only moral basis of business ethics but also influences behavior norms that structure interactions in society.

The first decade of the XXI century raised the discussion of state's value, interaction between state and market, the needed degree, extent, limit of etatisation, forms of public administration that serve the national development interests. The article analyses the evolution of administrative reforms and public administration models that our society needs to reach new targets of socially - oriented and competitive development.

Periods of armed conflicts and wars as well as peace periods constitute the history of mankind. However, up to late XX century, despite the fact that peace remains a crucial condition of mankind development and existence, special emphasis was put on warfare culture. That's why the concept of «culture of peace» as the subject of scientific analysis has come into being only recently. The article regards basic approach to the concept and scrutinizes theoretical debate aimed to work out strategies of the concept analysis.

Regional development strategies should be built in accordance with socio-economic parameters. On the basis of multi-dimensional cluster analysis the author evaluates the potential of municipal development in Kaluga region.

The article's aim is to show the advantages of organizing the effective work of the HR Department. It allows to success in recruitment, development and motivation of the personnel problem-solving in an effort to establish «the personnel-oriented firm».

The author maintains that developing tolerance and intercultural communication within the new generation of public servants is a basis for political stability and demonstrates different approaches to the concepts as factors of forming professional competences of public servants.