MANAGEMENT AND LEADERSHIP ABILITIES OF PRIMARY SCHOOL STUDENTS: SUBJECT MATTER AND PARTICULAR CHARACTERISTICS

Abstract

In the article readers attention is focused on the concept interpretation of words “management” and “leadership”; on their subject matter and differences. Management is determined as system arrangement; a function of highly organized forms of life, society, industrial and mechanical are awhichensures their structural integrity, life-sustaining activity that is aimed on their dynamic development, the object impact for its change in the future; specific form of information accumulation and use. The concept of “leader ship” is interpreted as the impact on groups of people, the type of management interaction that encourages them to achieve the goal; interpersonal interactions that is carried out through the communication process. On the basis of the concepts analysis of “leadership” and “management” there were out lined the subject matter of management and leader ship abilities. Managerial skills of younger pupils areal located according to their management functions (planning, organization, management and control) in the light of their personal activity measurement (related to the particular system organization and management), staff (which involves people management, interpersonal interaction organization), industrial and technological (directly related to the organization of the technological process). Typology managerial skills is grounded on the basis of mutually complemented using of functional, activity, structural and psychological criteria. The leadership abilities of elementary school students consist such as pects: the ability quickly and accurately to determine the best course of action, to lead the others by chosen way, to establish partnership cooperation, to work in a team, to be able to take responsibility for achieving goals over coming challenges and soon. However there are important qualities such as credibility, activity, dominance, confidence, exactingness, tolerance, to be initiative, creativity, communicativeness, balance and stress resistance, reliability, perseverance, fairness, honesty, determination and soon.