Shaping a leadership style in the process of generational change in enterprise management

Abstract

The article examines the peculiarities, problems, and means of forming the leadership style of the follower in the process of generational change in enterprise management. A generalization of the theoretical foundations of leadership style formation is carried out. The structure and directions for ensuring the effectiveness of this process have been identified. The leadership system applied by the management of a modern enterprise can be considered a competitive advantage, the preservation of which in the process of changing generations in the management of the enterprise can be achieved by the purposeful formation of a leadership style in persons in the personnel reserve. Work with the personnel reserve should be aimed at forming a synergistic unity of content and communication components of the leadership style and solving the task of harmonizing the value systems and value orientations inherent in the manager and the company's staff. At the same time, considerable attention should be paid to the formation of such elements of leadership behavior as work with values – identification, agreement, correction; working with conflicts - development of communicative competencies of the "mediator" leadership style and the ability to use the potential of conflict to rally and unite followers; emotion management – the ability to identify emotions, changes in emotions and their integration into the motivation process. Using the theory of generations as a tool for identifying the values of different age groups allows us to simplify the mechanism of identifying potential problem areas in leadership relaying and to determine the directions of formation and development of the successor's leadership style. Both traditional forms of professional development (for the creation of essential management competencies) and modern interactive ones, training, and coaching (for the formation of integral leadership formations) should be recognized to ensure the formation of a leadership style during the change of generations at the enterprise. Keywords: leadership, leadership style, management competencies, management, enterprise management, generational theory.