The theoretical and methodological bases of problems of management potential development are examined. The theme of management potential is not fully developed by the Russian psychological science, in particular, the science of acmeology. It is connected with the ambiguity of understanding of the concept management potential, and with the absence of practice of its application to a category of young specialists considered as an administrative reserve of modern business organisations. The new methodological approaches to the person as an open self-organizing psychological system, ideas of progressive personal and professional formation in educational conditions, the psychology of innovative behaviour, the general theory of the fixed forms of behaviour allow specifying the definition of management potential of young specialists of the defence enterprises. The solution of the problem of development of management potential of young specialists in the conditions of modern manufacture rests upon the following: 1. the necessity of working out administrative potential of young specialists due to the lack of knowledge in the acmeological-psychological system, of settled views on understanding the laws of formation of young specialists of defence industry; the discrepancy of separate positions in the existing approaches to the given problem, need to order and generalise the empirical data that represents it as an urgent problem that demands setting criteria of high management potential; and working out humanitarian acme-oriented technologies directed at development of this potential in young specialists of defence enterprises; 2. the maturing of philosophic and scientific preconditions the formation of acmeology as a science of the integrative-synthesis type, sense and character with its special role in understanding and studying of the person, his/her vital capabilities, prime targets and meaning of life. The acmeological approach is chosen as the basic one providing the necessary conditions and factors for development of management potential of young specialists of defence enterprises.

Рассматриваются теоретико-методологические основания проблемы развития управленческого потенциала. Основополагающим выбран акмеологический подход, обеспечивающий необходимые условия и факторы для развития управленческого потенциала молодых специалистов оборонных предприятий.