Foreign experience of leadership development for Ukraine (on the example of Germany and Poland)

Abstract

At the current stage of Ukrainian state integration into European community, country leaders face new challenges that require improving efficiency of public management and public administration based on democracy and human-centeredness. Urgency of public leadership development in Ukraine is closely related to the foreign countries’ experience study on the mechanisms of formation and development of public leadership, characterized by a high level of moral values, responsibility, communication, modesty. The new management paradigm, being introduced in public administration and public management in Ukraine, also requires introduction of new qualities in public leadership, manifested through establishment of moral values in the leader's personality, leader’s behavior in public service reform. According to the author, such qualities of leadership as delegation of powers in public authorities, intersectoral cooperation in public administration determine development of leadership in the context of educational trends in foreign countries. The article reveals priority models of public leadership of Western European countries as a prerequisite for formation of successful personality, successful leadership qualities, the trend of which is such an important factor as publicity, because before the 90s of the twentieth century not all government officials in European countries were public.The author of the article proposes to consider the features of the development of public leadership in Germany and Poland. Leadership qualities such as the ability to educate themselves, delegation of authority, transparent (transparency, openness and activation) and transformational cooperation. They determine a new style of leadership development in Western European countries, which will be useful for implementation in Ukraine. Therefore, the relevance of the article is beyond doubt.