Социология / 14. Кадровый менеджмент

Сandidate of philosophical sciences, Igebaeva F. A.

Bashkir State Agrarian University, Russia

On the art of management activities

Summary: The article it gives a scientific substantiation of the necessity of increasing the role and responsibility of today's managers which requires the formation and development of their business and personal qualities.The author notes that the choice of leadership style depends not only on the authority of a leader and the effectiveness of its work, but also the atmosphere in the team and relationships between subordinates and supervisor.

Key words: manager; effectiveness of management; leadership styles; communication culture; moral standards.

Currently there must be no more challenging position than of a manager found to be complex, requiring a person with many skills. A good manager should know everything from marketing secrets to financial science arts, from modern production organization methods to mysteries of human psychology. That’s why establishing favorable conditions for sound moral and psychological climate in a team greatly relies on mutual understanding as well as joint efforts of all team members in achieving certain public oriented objectives.

A manager’s attitude to staff affects the whole character of business communication and greatly determines moral and psychological climate of a team. Here morality is a value expression of human interrelations where morality rules are expressed in how-to-do ideas. Rate of production activities efficiency depends on the way human labor corresponds to the wellbeing of the staff. I. Kant claimed that in the Kingdom of goals everything has either a price or a value. The thing with a price can be replaced by any kind of something equivalent; the very thing that is higher of any price, therefore, admits no equivalent, has value [1, p. 267].

The main principles of ethical conduct in any situation were offered by ancient thinkers: be master of yourself to respect others like you want to be respected and behave the way you want others to behave towards you, “you shall not murder”, “you shall not steel”, “you shall not bear false witness”, “you shall not commit adultery”, “you shall not desire what others have”, “you shall not make idols”, “honor your mother and your father and that it may be well with you and your days may be long” [2]. There is nothing more than humanity as Confucius said.

A manager’s moral personality formation is resulted from purpose-oriented behavior organization. The ancients offered advice: good deeds do without fuss. Award those who did you good. You shall not do things that would appeal to your conscience.

Effective personnel management can be achieved if a manager takes well to their employees, keeps social norms, good at thinking much of a person’s individuality and their usefulness for other people no matter what is the level of their skills and position. A manager mustn’t allow any case when an initiative of the whole group or a person is ignored and strict command management is performed disguised as insistence on high standards. Once Kemal Ataturk said: “The best people sometimes get into the worst trouble”. A manager must keep it in his mind and never affect the rights of other people no matter what trouble are they in [3, p.15]. You can criticize the deed but not a man. You must do your best not to criticize at other people’s presence. And, vice versa, never show up that you prefer some colleagues more than others.

One also need follow such moral principles, as, for example, moral justification and acceptance of different results. Those decisions are fair that create equal initial opportunities. It goes without saying one mustn’t succeed at the expense of another person.

Moral relationship as no other principles need tact, ability to be sensible and sympathetic, spare other people’s vanity. Sensitivity means politeness in communication that according to German philosopher A. Schopenhauer is the same for a man like heat for wax. To master skills of a delicate manner of communication requires special knowledge of etiquette in general as well as management etiquette.

Management science is based on the unique system of leadership elements, models and styles. Great attention is focused on development and practical application of basic principles for administrative activities associated with social interactions between individuals. Special interest is paid for ensuring effective management activities: decision preparation and adoption, their scientific validity, implementation and its monitoring [4, p.61].

Today managers should pay more attention to personal qualities of their subordinates, their firm commitment and ability to solve problems quickly. Even the most experienced manager being good at management theory is not insured for irrational, emotional respond to a situation. One must always remember words of a wise man: "the Art of managing people is the most difficult and highest of all arts".

The choice of leadership style results in not only a manager’s authority and his or her operation efficiency but a team’s atmosphere and relationships between subordinates and their supervisor. When the whole staff runs on all cylinders, their manager finds that in addition to the goals achieved there is human happiness, mutual understanding and job satisfaction.

References:

1. Kant, I. Collected works in 6 volumes. Volume 4, Part 2. - Moscow, 1965. PP. 266 – 267 (in Russian).

2. The Bible. The Russian Bible Society, M.: 2001.

3. Igebaeva F.A. To the question of increase of administrative activity at the agrarian and industrial complexes enterprises //Socio-political sciences. – 2013. – No. 3 – P. 13 – 16.

4. Igebaeva F.A. Management style is the main characteristic of the manager activity /Science today: theoretical aspects and practice: collection of articles. International scientific-practical conference in 9 parts. - Part 8. - Tambov: Publishing house of the NGO «Business-Science-Society», 2011. - P.60 - 61.