Abstract

The focus is on the relevance of the study of social leadership as a social phenomenon. It is determined that joint organization and management of socially significant activities on initiation of social changes and finding optimal means of their achievement are necessary to solve actual problems of theory and practice of social work within the framework of sustainable development of society. The specifics of the formation of the phenomenon of leadership in the context of different approaches and concepts are revealed, the most important leadership theories are structured and generalized as the need to take them into account in the study of theoretical and methodological principles of social leadership. In the course of covering the main aspects of the researched issue, the author concludes that the most promising direction for further study is the consideration of social leadership as a resource for improving the efficiency of social work in Ukraine. The interpretation of social leadership of social workers as an integrated personal formation is shown in the aspiration and ability of specialists to realize leadership potential in various spheres of social activity to improve the quality of social services provision to vulnerable categories of the population. The value and importance of practical use of the concept of social leadership for the most important key to the success of society. In the context of the study, the existence of the influence on the change of many educational benchmarks of professional training for the formation of social leadership in future specialists is revealed, since the modern practice of social work requires the involvement of social workers in the process of developing effective models of social work, providing innovative social services to vulnerable categories of the population, the introduction of administrative services of a social nature, interaction with the community.

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