The Department of Organisations Management was founded in 1945 as the profiling Department of Industrial Economics and Organization of Production in Mechanical Department of the Lviv Polytechnic Institute.
In different years the department was headed by: Ph.D., Associate professor Z.Rubin (1945-1949), Ph.D., Associate professor S.Yampolskyi (1950-1956), Associate professor Z.Rubin (1956-1957), Ph.D., Associate professor I. Ryabchenko (1957), seniour teacher M. Adariukov (1957-1958), Prof. M. Shrah (1958-1964).
In 1964 Department was merged with the Department of Economics and the Chemical Industry and Energy in the Department of Economics and Field Industry Organization (Head — Sc.D., Professor V.Borodkin). In 1967 it was divided into profiling departments. The Department of Economics and Mechanical Engineering and Instrumentation Organisation was formed, headed by Sc.D., Prof. O. Sydorov (1967-1978), Ph.D., Associate professor J. Kornelyuk (from 1978-980), Ph.D., Associate professor O.Yanushevych (1980-1985), Sc.D., Professor Y. Petrovych (1985-2005)., Ph.D., Associate professor G.Zaharchyn (2005-2008).
In 1996 the Department was named “The Department of nterprise economy and management”. The current name of the Deparment is the Deparment of management and organization.
This day the Department is officially headed by Ph.D., Prof. Chukhray N., the member of the National Academy of Sciences of Ukraine, the author of more than 300 scientific research on the problems of innovational and strategic management, including 12 monographs, 10 textbooks and 5 educational accessories with the Ministry of Science and Education of Ukraine seal on them. 10 candidate’s thesis were successfully defended under the guidance of N. Chukhray.
The Department traines experts in management as well as attend to the technical institutes, the Institute of Distance Education and the Postgraduate Education Institute in Lviv Polytechnic National University.