Object of research: developments of labour potential of the enterprises; the purpose of work: theoretical generalization and improvement of methodical maintenance, and also development of practical recommendations concerning management of development of labour potential the enterprises of mechanical engineering; technique of research and the equipment: theoretical generalization, the analysis and synthesis, the statistical analysis, the system approach, expert estimations, the analysis of taxonomy, the multivariate factorial analysis; theoretical and practical results: it is advanced: a technique a complex estimation of a level of development of labour potential the enterprise; composition of structure labour potential of the enterprise, constructed by a substantiation of additional components: intellectual, cultural-moral and innovative potentials of workers; the functional mechanism of management of development labour potential of the enterprise; technique of the analysis of influence parameters ofdevelopment of labour potential on productivity activity the enterprise with use of the offered qualitative characteristics (physical, qualifying, cultural - moral, social - psychological, intellectual, innovative potentials of workers); have received the further development: set of internal factors of development of labour potential the enterprise on the basis of allocation in their structure the industrial, financial, marketing, administrative, innovative, information and welfare potentials put in process estimation of a degree their influence on development of labour potential the enterprise; The organizational mechanism of management in labour potential of the enterprise, directed on coordination the purposes of management in labour potential and the purposes of development of components the economic potential of the enterprise (administrative, industrial, marketing, financial, innovative, information, welfare potentials); practical value of the received results consists that use of the offered scientific - methodical and practical development concerning improvement of management by development of labour potential in practical activities of the enterprises; subject and degree of introduction: are introduced at machine-building enterprises of the Kharkov region of “The tractor factory of Kharkov”, “The machine-building of Kharkov “Eiektrotygmash”; sphere of use: operational activity of the machine-building enterprises
