The following issues were highlighted during the meeting:

-     efficiency concept and kinds of efficiency of industrial and economic activity;

-     the main aspects of efficiency of industrial and economic activity;

-     methods for efficiency increasing;

-     role and importance of efficiency in industrial and economic activity;

-     explanation of efficiency at different stages of management development;

-     the main factors influencing efficiency;

-     present approaches and theories of management of industrial and economic activity efficiency:

-     definition of efficiency level: qualitative and quantitative analysis, search for cause-and-effect relations between efficiency characteristics.