THE DEVELOPMENT OF PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE OF MANAGERS

Abstract

Managing employees in organisatons comprises several types of activities including managing their vital activity, execution, counteraction, concordance, co-ordination, and communication.Similar to any other activity managerial activity has different levels of complexity. Modern literature offers several criteria for managerial activity levels and presents outlines of the levels of its professional competence. Relying on the conducted research the author singles out ten levels of managerial activity. Each of the given levels presents a new stage of qualitative significance as well as complication of managerial activity.There is an interrelation between the model of the manager’s personality development and the levels of their professional competence. Thanks to mastering the aggregate of knowledge and acquiring certain practices and skills in the given sphere, one can achieve the next level of a manager’s professional competence.The author has designed the model of managers’ professional development for their achieving higher levels of professional competence. The structure of one of the most important units of the model, i. e. „Acquiring emotional stability”, is given.To master all the units of the model of managers’ professional development and to acquire appropriate skills it is necessary to use intensive educational technologies including several types of games, coaching and case studies. The experience of the use of the managers’ development program allowed for determining the main elements and guidelines of the education that are given in a form of ontological scheme. The structure of a problem-solving situational game „Professional competence of managers” and methods of application of activity assessment system of the game participants according to some parameters are given.Thus, the levels of professional competence, the managers’ professional development model and intensive education technologies constitute the methodological complex ensuring the development of specialists’ competence in managerial activities.