The importance of study is related to the research made by managers to find out what effects can cause their leadership; whether it is possible to ensure the welfare of the company using their leadership. To answer these questions scientific empirical studies that demonstrate the role of leadership as a significant factor in the effectiveness of labor and business management are needed to be realized. The thing that makes our study topical is that we are studying one of the promising and understudied forms of leadership - complex adaptive leadership. Today's organizations and their stuff work in environment with a high level of uncertainty, interdependence, diversity and vagueness of causal relationships between different elements of the organizational system. Most adequately to this environment is complex adaptive leadership, the essence of which is to develop a team of associates considering the fact that this command is valid in the context of complexity. Study relies on the methodology and methods developed by Nick Obolensky, specialist in the field of leadership and strategic management. The purpose is to identify the level of organizational and individual complex adaptive leadership of project managers and to establish the relationship between this level and indicators of labor efficiency and business management in Russian IT companies. The underlying hypothesis is that the more complex adaptive leadership of organization and its project managers are developed, the more high levels of socio-economic efficiency of labor and business management has an IT company. The study is focused on models of organizational leadership and strategy leadership of project managers, relationships between the level of existence of different models and strategies of leadership and indicators of labor efficiency and business management. Study was conducted with the participation in the international research project (Russia, UK), devoted to the efficiency of business management in the IT sector in Russia. Project participants: the Company Complex Adaptive Leadership, companies "Project Business" and "Paleks" with the support of the National Research University "Higher School of Economics", National Research Tomsk Polytechnic University, Dostoevsky Omsk State University". Our team conducted a study in 22 Omsk companies in 2015. Results of the study: 1. Models of organizational leadership and strategies of individual leadership of project managers. 2. A comparative analysis of complex adaptive leadership in IT-companies in Omsk and other Russian regions. 3. Association between the level of leadership and performance indicators labor and business management organizations was found. 4. Programs for complex adaptive leadership were developed. There is a link between the level of complex adaptive leadership of organizations and project managers, on the one hand, and indicators of socio-economic efficiency of business management on the other. Study is valuable for IT companies, because it provides recommendations for the development of the complex adaptive leadership with the aim of improving business efficiency.
