Social competence of the leader in mass and expert evaluation

The study presents a comprehensive description of the social competence of the company’s leaders based on the results of mass sociological and expert surveys. The research identifies the place of social competence in leader activities and presents the opinions of respondents on the content of the manager’s social competence, the results of its evaluation and self-assessment. The common leaders’ judgments on human nature are given. Social factors are evaluated as the most significant ones for determining the successful managerial activity. The structure of social competence includes six key components: cognitive (knowledge), practical (skills), instrumental (abilities), motivational (motives), value-based (values), personal (personal qualities). Leaders and experts mostly emphasize the cognitive and technological components of social competence. In their opinion, practical, personal and especially motivational and value-based components are much less significant.