Abstract: This work is dedicated to the search for new mechanisms for the formation and development of leadership qualities of an individual in the area of management. The authors conduct a theoretical analysis of the key leadership qualities from the perspective of various schools, as well as describe approaches towards their formation (leadership is just a manifestation of the inherited talent; leader can be brought up through the corresponding training or creation of certain situations). Sociocultural peculiarities of the phenomenon of leadership in Russia are being discussed. The work introduces the commercial and authorial instruments on the basis of modern information and communication technologies that allow forming and development the leadership qualities. The authors consider the merits and flaws in using the Russian commercial software iSpring Suite, the proprietary information system for creating the virtual social educational environment with the preset characteristics and authorial specialized social network. The created virtual social environments are easily scalable and invariant with regards to the content, which discovers the new opportunities in terms of fast adjustment of the proposed content to the sociocultural features of a particular person, as well as the creation of individual educational trajectories.

Keywords: information and communication technologies, training, management, management sphere, leadership potential, leadership, leader, information systems, social network, informatization

Abstract: The subject of this study is the multitude of issues regarding the improvement of personnel training with the help of automated training systems, achieved by implementing adaptive personified management for personnel training, which would consider individual traits of the subject of training, non-monotonous structure of study trajectories, predictions for mastering study material, achieved through retrospective study dynamics analysis. During the personnel training process based on the analysis of the results of student-automated system interaction, the efficiency of the chosen strategy is being evaluated, producing recommendations for adaptive correction based on transformation theory's theses. This research employed the methods of engineering psychology, system analysis, knowledge management, automated systems engineering, ergonomics. The main conclusions of this study revolve around the fact that using the methods of the transformation study theory for implementing adaptive personalized personnel training management, using automated training systems allows to shorten the time and enhance the quality of professional training of subjects, due to optimizing the typical structure of training for each subject, considering their individual study traits.

Keywords: managing structure of training, staff training, personalized learning, adaptive learning strategy, transformational learning, training strategy, training management, automated training system, structure of the learner, adaptive learning environment

Abstract: The research subject of this article is business education as an education service. The matter under study is business education development in the USSR and modern Russia. The author analyzes essence and form of Russian business education at different stages of development. The article reflects the mechanism of influence by late XX century's radical political and economic changes concerning education, and enhanced demand for education services. The author draws attention to peculiarities of education services in general and business education in particular.The methodological basis of this research includes historic, functional, social methods, and XX-XXI century Russia's business education development's economic analysis.The main conclusions reached by the author can be summarized in the following way. Russian business education dates back to more than a century, though the term itself is comparatively new. On different stages of development, its organizational forms and structure were changing, however but the main goal was the same: to train qualified managers and directors. Nowadays management in education itself is a separate branch of business education. The state used to be the customer of this service, but under market economy, private enterprises and citizens who want to be managers, but lack the experience, become the target audience. It motivates a growing demand for educational services even in the times of crisis.The novelty of this article is condensed in the author's efforts to distinguish the main stages of development of business education in Russia, as well as to analyze the influence of turning to market economy at its genesis in Russia, and to demonstrate the interdependence between country’s social and economic situation and demand for education services.

Keywords: management, education services, development, genesis, education, business, administration, society, market, demand