Professional competence as the level of professionalism

Abstract

Each profession, regardless of its specificity, requires a high level of professionalism from its employees. Researchers of the study propose to determine professionalism as an integral psychological characteristic of a work subject, reflecting and setting the level of a man's compliance with the occupation requirements. At that professionalism is composed of professional competence and operation success. Professional competence determines the level of main professional components knowledge and skills. The success of activity reflects the level of a meaningful goal achievement by an actor, a social recognition. The analysis of different approaches presented in the study concerning the determination of professional competence and its species suggest that professional competence being the part of a subject professionalism may also be the criterion of its development. The content and the types of professional competence are revealed on the basis of this analysis. The necessity of emotiona