INNOVATIVE COMPETENCES AS A REQUIREMENT FOR A PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT OF AN EFFECTIVE MANAGER
Nowadays innovative activity is usually considered as the most effective tool of increasing the competitiveness of organizations and their development. Therefore, the qualified employees which are willing to accompany the innovative process at all organizational levels are highly demanded. Most of them are expected to have a special expertise and skills that ensure their successful participation in innovative activities. The article is aimed at the analysis of the contemporary Russian educational standards to reveal a specific area of such expertise and skills which is innovative competences. It also presents the results of the sociological research that involved the teachers of secondary schools. The purpose of the research was to confirm the advisability of introducing the concept of innovative competences in educational standards and to define this concept.