The monograph, based on an activity-based approach, examines the process of formation and development of concepts, modern human resource management systems. The features of national management systems, as well as the degree of applicability and adaptation of foreign experience in the practice of large Russian enterprises are outlined. Human resource management activity is considered as a universal phenomenon of social life, rather than an attribute of an individual person, as a system characterized by the level of development of economic systems and socio-labor relations; features of management, developed under the influence of natural, economic and socio-cultural factors - in which the person. included in the activity, is not only a product of the changing environment, but through the result of mastering social and historical experience - the cause of its development.