Modern Practice of Manual Management in Russian Governmental and Municipal Authority

Objectives to define content and structure of manual management term to analyze motives legal framework legitimacy forms and methods of using manual procedures in the management processes in entities of governmental and municipal authority in the Russian Federation to explore foreign experience in terms of manual management to define ratios between system and manual methods in Russian management practice and to evaluate the degree of their influence on social and economic life of modern Russian society The methodological base of the research is comprised with methods and scientific cognition techniques widely used in research practice namely methods of deduction and induction generalization observation forecasting scientific abstraction techniques system analysis as well as classification and grouping instruments elements of cross industry and comparative historical analysis expert estimations Results of the research authors have formulated own definition of manual management term revealed reasons conditions and motives for its applying by Russian bodies of governmental and municipal authority described the most spread methods of its application and factors concerning increase of cases of refuse to use system procedures in modern practice of governmental and municipal management Scientific novelty considering the practice of Russian governmental and municipal management authors focus on the lately applied procedures of its exercising such as creation of parallel management structures transition to instruments of directive instructions etc On the basis of conducted analysis of activity performed by bodies of governmental and municipal authority in constituent of the Russian Federation authors have revealed ratio between manual and system procedures used in management process formulated definition of manual management term disclosed conditions and motives for its application and also made a conclusion stating the main reasons for applying and extending manual management practice are the incompleteness and inconsistency of applicable Russian legislation which on the one hand cannot reflect to the full extent the fundamental changes in social and economic spheres that took place in Russia within the recent decades and on the other hand is far not always able to sufficiently regulate relationships between object and subject in the process of governmental and municipal management Practical relevance as a result of the research authors forecast the probable consequences of outlined tendency for extension of practice of manual management in bodies of governmental and municipal authority in both in the medium and the longer term