The article continues the discussion about the role and importance of professional standards in improvement of management in economic subjects and their influence on training specialists of different qualifications. The author emphasizes that introduction of professional standards as an important tool of human resources policy involves the harmonization of the provisions of the standards not only with educational programs of higher school institutions but also with a number of legal and normative documents regulating the system of management of economic subjects. The harmonization in the development of academic and vocational (professional) education should play an important role in successful use of professional standards. The partof self-regulatory organization in this process should be clearly determined. The competences taken into consideration when working out educational programs, should be harmonized with regulations on organizing management including the model provisions about divisions, about main departments in management structure and job descriptions. The issues of assessment of compliance of professional qualification with professional standards should be linked to the rules of certification of an organization and taken into consideration when planning staff career, evaluating its performance and developing incentive schemes.