One-Man Management, a major principle of the management of socialist production, which implies absolute subordination of the labour activity of each member of the collective to the will of the manager, who is invested with power by society or the body of employees and is personally responsible for the results achieved by the economic unit of which he is in charge. In socialist society, the will of the leader is not opposed, as an alien force, to that of the direct participants in production; rather it corresponds to the interests of the whole body of employees. One-man management is combined with extensive participation by the working people in management (see Democratic Centralism; Economic Management). In his activities, the manager enlists the assistance of the Party, the trade union and the Komsomol organisations, standing production conferences and other bodies through which the participation of working people in economic management is realised. Lenin wrote on one-man management: "We must learn to combine the ’public meeting’ democracy of the working people—turbulent, surging, overflowing its banks like a spring flood—with iron discipline while at work, with unquestioning obedience to the will of a single person, the Soviet leader, while at work" (V. I. Lenin, Collected Works, Vol.27, p. 271). For one-man management to be possible, each manager has to have a clear idea of his rights, duties and responsibilities. Recently, all economic leaders in the Soviet Union have been granted considerably more authority, and this has been reflected in the regulations concerning the Ministries of the USSR and production associations (enterprises). The increasing scale of production and the qualitative changes in the economy make increasing demands on the competence of managers. The modern manager must blend a Party approach to things, competence, self-discipline, initiative and a creative attitude to his work; he must also be able to understand the needs and requirements of the people and be above reproach iiT both his work and daily life.