LEADERSHIP QUALITIES OF THE FUTURE MILITARY PERSONNEL OF UKRAINE IN THE 21ST CENTURY

Abstract

The issue of forming the leadership qualities of servicemen during hostilities in Eastern Ukraine is an extremely important, defining task. The need for highly qualified officers who are able to successfully perform combat missions and skillfully manage their unit, has led to the fact that leadership in the military plays a special role. The purpose of the study is to identify and characterize the groups of leadership qualities of servicemen that are necessary for the success and effective implementation of the tasks set in the 21st century. To achieve this goal, theoretical research methods such as analysis of scientific sources, synthesis, comparison and generalization were used. The analysis of scientific works of foreign and domestic authors devoted to the problem of leadership and conditions of formation of leadership qualities of servicemen is carried out in the work. The meaning of the concept of “leadership” proposed by some scholars of its definition, as well as the term “military leader” in accordance with the Doctrine of the development of military leadership in the Armed Forces of Ukraine. Different approaches of domestic scientists to the identification of leadership qualities in future servicemen are analyzed. The scientific novelty of the study is that on the basis of scientific and theoretical analysis identified and characterized the main groups of moral and psychological qualities needed by a military leader in the 21st century, namely: moral, patriotic, organizational, military special. These groups of qualities of servicemen are the key to success on the way to obtaining quality results and fulfilling the set tasks in the period of dynamic, unstable and difficult conditions of today. Prospects for further scientific research are seen in a more detailed justification of certain groups of moral and psychological qualities of future servicemen, study of the basic prerequisites and factors of their formation, as well as developing an algorithm for developing leadership qualities of cadets.