Management in Socialist Industry and Enterprises Part I Economic Basis and Main Features of Socialist Management

socialist management

public industrial enterprises

associations of nationally-owned enterprises

Economic Basis and Main Features of Socialist Management

Managerial activity in industry and enterprises has been developed as an immediate condition of social division of labour and large-scale production. The main task for managing the individual enterprises as well as the whole industry-under socialist conditions of production-is, there- fore, to coordinate social production process based on a social division of labour. The direction of production and reproduction process represents an absolutely necessary prerequisite for a continuous and economic production. This demands that managerial activity and structure of management have to correspond to these main tasks of direction of production. Before speaking, however, about the system of managing the industry and enterprises, we have to explain the main functions of coordinating the production process in more detail. It is not just a simple coordination that is required. We have rather to guarantee an absolute conformity in the discharge of duties which are directed at realizing the uniform object. Managing in socialist industry aims, therefore, at including all the individual workers as well as the working teams in this process of managing.