The article considers the current state of use of labor resources at enterprises engaged in aircraft construction and emphasizes the importance of personnel policy management. The article describes the method of assessing the use of labor potential for machine-building enterprises and analyzes the state of effective use of labor potential. The implementation of the analysis at the enterprises of the aircraft industry should begin with an assessment of the company's availability of the required number of staff, the adequacy of qualified personnel and staff turnover. The task of this assessment is to identify reserves for saving labor resources for their rational and optimal placement, loading and use. Labor supply includes a study of staff turnover, which is calculated on such indicators as the turnover rate on admission, the turnover rate from disposal, the turnover rate. The evaluation of indicators that characterize efficiency (namely: average number of employees, average monthly wages, output, labor productivity) on the example of aircraft companies such as SE "Antonov" and SE HMZ "FED" based on reporting data. The personnel policy of SE "Antonov" and SE KhMZ "FED", which includes the number of employees and areas of improvement of enterprise management, is analyzed. The dynamics of these indicators for 2018 and 2019 are substantiated and the reasons for the change of these indicators are identified. Also in the article indicated efficiency of labor resources is carried out through management as in order to successfully and rationally distribute the work potential should be purposeful regulation of the enterprise in the areas of efficiency management to ensure compliance with the actual state of the enterprise to the specified parameters. The article describes the main tasks of human resource management are as follows: effective use of labor potential at the enterprise; improving the organization of working conditions and jobs; conducting motivational activities for staff; ensuring a sufficient number of workers in production in accordance with the qualifications and specialization; improving the personnel policy of the enterprise. The ways of increase of efficiency of use of labor resources on the basis of management of activity of the enterprises of aviation branch and personnel policy are offered.