A person, as you know, is a social being, that is, living within the framework of a certain system, which is equipped with certain relationships. Therefore, social management is the management of people who are elements of a particular system.
The main mechanisms of social management are as follows:
1. The mechanism of conscious control, the essence of which is that all processes are implemented by people.
2. The mechanism of spontaneous management, the consistency of which is the result of the work of individual processes.
Based on these mechanisms, social management can be considered as a set of objective laws, leaving aside ideological and political preferences.
The nature of social governance is also very peculiar: the primitive herd just then ceases to be such and becomes a society when social ties begin to emerge within this community, which, in fact, organize us all. The emergence of these relations is characterized by a change in the external environment, which led to the fact that people were forced to join forces in order to survive. This moment of awareness of the need to combine efforts and means the emergence of society, and, consequently, its management.
Considering social management as an element of the general system, we should mention its features:
1. Management is volitional, that is, based on the will and consciousness of people.
2. The system-forming factor is a joint interest and a common goal.
3. The imperious nature of governance, that is, power provides control, and, accordingly, unity.
4. Historical features (on each new formation they are purely individual).
It is impossible not to say about such a sign of control as cyclicality. In turn, any cycle of the social system has 4 stages:
• The informative stage at which information is collected and processed.
• Intellectual, on which decisions are made.
• Implementing, promoting the solution to the masses.
• Legislative, which is characterized by control over the implementation and adjustment of actions.
Social management involves the performance of certain functions:
• Production management (co-production of food).
• Forecasting management (which is fundamental to system survival)
• Management as a form of enforcement of requirements (ensuring compliance with the rules, expressed in the legal apparatus).
• Office of Social Protection (this function applies to women, children, the elderly).
Types of social management (in some literature these concepts are called methods):
• Forced.
• Voluntary.
• Software.
Thus, social management is a sufficiently multifaceted process, which includes many factors, therefore, having given a short description of the main provisions, the concept cannot be fully studied. In order to fully understand this issue, it is necessary to deal with it structurally and study it in the framework of system analysis.
