The Role of Leadership in Creating and Supporting an Effective Mentoring System in Social Sector Organizations

Abstract

This work is devoted to the role of leadership in creating and supporting an effective mentoring system in social institutions, since in Russia there is now a great emphasis on the transformation and improvement of social institutions through the development of the system of providing social services. The development of all these systems expands the range of tasks for employees of social institutions, and as a result, actualizes the research of the mentoring system and related components. The article examines the key theoretical aspects of leadership in the context of the topic under study, as well as the specifics of the development of a mentoring system through the introduction of leadership technologies into it. The paper also presented the results of an empirical study on the topic “Formation of leadership qualities among mentors in social institutions”, within which recommendations were proposed for the development of leadership qualities among mentors in the process of adaptation or professional development of employees, as well as the entire mentoring system in social institutions to further maximize human potential in them.