KARTSEVA Tatiana

The article analyzes the leadership functions of executives in public administration which include the use of socio-psychological methods of influencing the collective. Despite the importance of the role of leadership of executives and managers, it is often neglected in the practice of governance and leadership and reducing this role to group level motivators. Leadership and governance more likely adopted not unite but rather to seek differences between them. Studying these phenomena it is stressed that leadership represents a social phenomenon whereby its functions evolve within a regulated system of formal (officially formal) relationships used by executives so as to effectively manage and in solving organizational tasks and problems. As to the importance of these functions, we take into consideration the example of research management practices prominent with business executives which can be adopted for optimizing the public administration in Russia. An ineffective implementation of the leadership role by managers and executives eventually leads to a decrease in their authority with their subordinates, fragmentation of their actions, resulting in reducing the importance of collective goals and a decrease in the desire to achieve them and by deduction affecting the overall efficiency of the group.