The article considers issues of functioning of a big mining and chemical enterprise under the conditions of complicating factors decreasing its stability. There are shown ways of cost reduction not connected to high capital costs such as improvement of use of workforce and improvement of production organization. The mainstream of the article is the necessity of continuous search for compromises, coordination of contradictory interests at all of the governance levels. At the same time corporative relations and problems of socially-oriented management increasing stability of the enterprise’s performance are given in a separate section.
