Ideal image of the head of the educational complex: Unique features (results of the study based on correlation analysis)

The article presents the new research data and should be considered as a continuation of the previous study [15. P. 875-887]. The relevance of the analysis of the “ideal portrait of the head of the educational complex” is determined by the requirements for the professional and personal qualities of teachers, which are established by the Russian legislation: Article 48 “Duties and Responsibilities of Teachers” of the Federal Law “On Education in the Russian Federation” sets the key rules of conduct for teachers, according to which teachers should have special personal qualities in order to “carry out their activities at a high professional level”. This determined the goal of the study presented in the article: to identify professionally important personal qualities of teacher-­leaders, to develop an ideal portrait of the head of the educational complex and to provide a mathematical model to assess the expression of necessary personal qualities of teachers-­leaders, despite the opinion of some colleagues about the “utopian nature of Weber’s ideal types of social action” as “not verifiable” [1], since they “cannot be found in everyday reality” [2. P. 207]. The author’s studies showed that the ideal portrait of the head of the educational complex consists of unique features: out of 16 possible personal qualities, 11 characteristic ones are distinctive and dominant among teachers. The correlation analysis revealed 7 key ones related to work efficiency, which allowed the author to propose a stricter selection model that requires some adjustments compared to the previous professiogram built on average indicators. Moreover, the author identified those personal qualities of teacher-­leaders that determine work and interpersonal conflicts in school groups.