A structural analysis of the complex of professionally important qualities of male and female managers

Abstract

© 2016 by iSER, International Society of Educational Research.The relevance of the issues of managers’ professional advancement related to the formation of the structure of professionally important qualities (PIQ), which guarantee a successful and effective work, remain open and poorly explored till nowadays. The aim of that article was to reveal gender-specific features of a complex of professionally important qualities. The research data clarify the idea of this complex by supplementing it with personal gender-specific characteristics. The article presents the results of a research on psychological characteristics of managers successful in their careers. Some particular aspects of interrelations of personal qualities in the correlational structure were revealed. The particular nature of gender-specific structures was demonstrated, which points at the necessity of differential approach to the study of psychological problems associated with professional advancement in male and female managers.