The objective of the study consists in determining the essence and features of self-management in the labor management system of specialists of road and bridge enterprises (RBE) and its role and place in the specified system. Methodology of the study consists in the use of a set of general scientific and special methods of scientific knowledge in the context of the attributive (triple) scientific approach, which permits to conduct it in three stages: at the first stage, a comprehensive analysis of the labor management system of RBE specialists was performed, a graphic model was created in the context of subject-object objective approach, conclusions were made. At the second stage, the essence and features of self-management were determined, a graphic model was created in the context of the subject-subjective approach, and conclusions were made. At the third stage, the role and place of self-management in the labor management system of RBE specialists is determined by comparing the graphic models selected in the first two stages. This permits to make scientifically based conclusions on the issue under investigation. Scientific novelty consists in performance of a structural-functional analysis of self-management in the labor management system of RBE specialists in the context of an attributive scientific approach based on the creation of three types of graphic models, which permits to provide a reliable description of self-management, determine its essence and features, visualize the main components and the nature of the connections between them and, on this basis, make scientifically based conclusions about its role and place in the specified system. Conclusions. It has been established that self-management is an important component of the labor management system of RBE specialists of a higher hierarchical level of systematicity (supersystem), with a complex conditionally completed system of the subject-subjective type, with an unobvious nature of connections, that ensures vitality, stability and effectiveness of reproductive processes in the specified system. It is shown that in self-management, a RBE specialist is both a subject and an object of managerial influence, therefore self-management is the most complex type of management and belongs to the formations of the highest hierarchical level according to the criteria of systematicity, efficiency and complexity. This is the exceptionally important role and place of self-management in the system of labor management of RBE specialists. The improvement of self-management has to be started with a comprehensive diagnostics of managers and specialists at such kind of enterprises, by activating of self-management functions among the management staff on the basis of their self-development and self-improvement, with the subsequent transfer of the accumulated experience to other links. This will allow bringing the self-management of the work of managers and specialists of RBE to a higher level and ensure its development on an innovative basis.