THE STRUCTURE OF OPERATIONAL-LEVEL AIR FORCE OFFICERS’ MANAGEMENT COMPETENCE AS A PROFESSIONALLY SIGNIFICANT PSYCHOLOGICAL FORMATION: A PSYCHOLOGICAL PERSPECTIVE

Abstract

The article is devoted to the study of the managerial competence of Air Force (AF) officers of the operational level of military command. The work substantiates the multicomponent structure of managerial competence and reveals its systemic nature as an integral professional formation. The author analyzes the specifics of the professional activity of Air Force officers, which is characterized by a combination of organizational, administrative and managerial functions that require the ability to make effective decisions and ensure the coordinated functioning of the military command system in combat and crisis situations. The purpose of the article is to study and substantiate the structure of managerial competence of Air Force officers of the operational level as a complex mental formation. Research methodology. Using methods of scientific knowledge (synthesis, analysis, generalization), the relevance of the current study was revealed, which is seen in the importance of diagnosing and the need to implement other approaches, methods and tools for studying the structure of managerial competence of Air Force officers as an important mental formation. The scientific novelty of the study is the study of the managerial competence of operational-level Air Force officers, which has not been reflected in the scientific literature. In addition, the novelty is the expansion of the traditional “personal component” to more specific emotional-volitional and individual-psychological, which allows us to take into account the complex interaction of various psychological factors in military leadership, especially in conditions of high stress. Conclusions. An eight-component model of managerial competence has been substantiated, which includes valuemotivational, cognitive, operational-activity, managerial, organizational-management, emotional-volitional, individualpsychic and subject components.