Value orientations of modern leaders

Abstract

The article reveals the urgency of the issue and analyzes similar foreign researches which serve as the basis for the development of diagnostic tool that is aimed at studying the structure of the modern leader's values. Due to the significant impact of the value system of the manager's personality on the corporate culture and, in particular, on the nature of the taken management decisions, the importance of not only studying this phenomenon, but also the need for taking it into account while implementing HR policies of the organization is noted. The article deals with the results of our own research of more than 2000 modern leaders' value orientations with the method of managerial potential assessing. The highlighted significant interrelations of the value preferences predominating both in the parent and in their own family along with the personal and professional characteristics of leaders are analyzed, their role and impact on the various components of the management activities are characterized. The fixed shift of value orientations to «spiritual comfort», «family» and «health» is studied; it determines the change in the structure of the personality qualities of the modern leader and points to the need for special attention to the formation of the value sphere of the personality even at the early stages of its formation.