Published: 15 February 2018
The article analyzes the ideas formed within the framework of the earliest experimental regional research schools of the Russian sociology of management that arose on the basis of the institutes of scientific analysis and organization of labor activity in the framework of the formation of the concepts of scientific organization of work that actively absorbed foreign experience in building it. The criteria for periodization and internal institutional structure of the initial stage of the Soviet management sociology are determined. Particular attention is paid to the ex- perience of working out the social organizational concepts of labor activity of the most prominent representatives of regional schools of the «sociological» trend for the scientific organization of work (O. E. Yermansky, F. R. Dunaevsky, N. A. Vitke). The influence of the «General Organizational Science» AA is analyzed. Bogdanov on the main regional directions of sociology management of the subsequent period.