The essence and structure of the concept of "leadership qualities of the service of students of agricultural institutions of vocational pre-higher education"

Abstract

The article reveals the concept of "Service leadership qualities" taking into account the requirements for the training of specialists in agricultural institutions of vocational pre-university education. It is emphasized that personality quality is the ability to behave in a similar way in a wide range of situations (G. Allport), and service leadership qualities are a cluster of abilities that allow a high-status individual to occupy a priority position in interpersonal relationships based on professionalism, respect, deserved authority, empathy and providing effective assistance to group members in self-affirmation, self-realization and increased effectiveness in performing a task significant for the group. Servant leadership is considered as a humanistic type of leadership, when an individual achieves high status positions not by dominating and imposing his will by brute force, but primarily by actualizing the needs of followers in achieving success, professional growth, building a career, and harmonizing relations with social environment Service leadership is characterized by: providing assistance to group members; aiming at constant self-development and self-improvement; programming the consciousness of followers using persuasion methods; conceptual thinking; management by meeting the needs of followers; the ability to form an effective team.
The qualities of service leadership include: morality, responsibility, empathy, professionalism, initiative, communication, stress resistance, conceptual thinking, organizational skills, as well as those qualities that determine the specificity of service leadership in production collectives of the agrarian industry, namely: value attitude to nature, economy, readiness to use environmentally safe technologies.
The qualities of leadership in the service of students of agricultural institutions of vocational higher education are considered as an integrative psychological education, which is structured not only by individual properties and abilities, but also manifests itself at the level of the component structure of the personality, covering such areas as: motivational (updated need for leadership in the service of followers-specialists agricultural industry); cognitive (knowledge about the features and examples of service leadership in the agro-industrial complex and agriculture); emotional and value (attitude towards service leadership and professional activity in agriculture as values); praxeological (formed abilities and skills, behavioral patterns of service leadership in the agro-industrial complex); reflective and evaluative (readiness for self-improvement of service leadership qualities in accordance with ideas about the ideal of leadership in the agricultural sector).