TECHNIQUE OF ASSESSING FUTURE MANAGERS’ LEADERSHIP QUALITIES IN MODERN SOCIO-CULTURAL ENVIRONMENT

The article deals with the issue of the formation of leadership qualities of future specialists in the field of management in modern socio-cultural environment. The urgency of the considered topic is determined by the significant change of external conditions of the development of personality in the last decade, characterized by a shift in emphasis from individual thinking to collective one, the transition of the organization of social interaction from hierarchical to network one. The purpose of the article is to substantiate theoretical, methodological and practical principles for assessing leadership qualities of future managers in modern socio-cultural environment. The main tendencies and phenomena in the development of the socio-cultural environment of modern young people from the point of view of the possibility of forming leadership qualities of future managers are revealed: unlimited expansion of reference groups; the weakening of critical thinking, displayed in the absence of “visual” cynicism and overestimation of achievements; “the crisis of individuality”, that is, the leveling of a personality; changing the hierarchy of needs: from personal to group ones; self-structuring of the society. Experimental study was conducted in two stages. The task of the first stage was to obtain factors that determine the manifestation of their leadership qualities baed on self-assessment. The task of the second stage was to identify the leaders in the group and assess their impact on the result of teamwork. As a result of the pilot study, there have been distinguished 5 students with mature leadership qualities out of 48 respondents. As a result of the study, a perspective direction of the development of management as a science was formulated, which is the formation of organizational and managerial principles of the individual work in the group (personality management).