Social and psychological portrait of the manager of the XXI century
The study analyzes the social and psychological characteristics of the portrait of a 21st century manager. Deals with behavioral, situational and leadership theories of management. The emphasis is made on the fact that the current state of management theory indicates the transition to a new system of views on management. The key points of the new management paradigm are the following factors: organizational culture, democratization of management, leadership style and leadership. The article provides a comparative characteristic of the professional qualities of a manager's personality, which are distinguished in some countries. The communicative aspect of the manager's activity is considered. Personal and professional skills, as well as behavioral characteristics of a modern manager are analyzed. The author adheres to the position that a bad manager is not just a weak and ineffective, does not meet the requirements, but one who, due to his shortcomings or weaknesses, acting as extreme factors, himself creates many psychological problems in management, makes it difficult, and sometimes even extreme. The study allows us to conclude that the socio-psychological portrait of a manager should include a system of psychological characteristics that are steadily manifested not only in the style of the leader's behavior in the process of business communication, but also in the style of his thinking, in the individual characteristics of making and implementing decisions, searching management schemes. Of course, the manager is the main figure of the organization, in the process of work he effectively cooperates with other people. Understanding psychology, using the psychological characteristics of people allows you to organize well-coordinated work of the team.