Abstract:
Despite the fact that management, as a specific field of professional activity, makes a special demands on its subject, depending on the level of management, there are practically no psychological studies for today that examine personality characteristics of women managers at different levels of management hierarchy. Nevertheless, there is a women active penetration to management in various fields of activity and the emergence of a new social category of "business women", which determined the relevance of "female" management features study. The aim of this study was to find out the main peculiarities of women lower, middle and higher levels of management personality traits. Methods of research: theoretical analysis of the problem, psychognostic method of collecting empirical material, conventional methods of statistical data processing and analysis. The comparative analysis data of women managers' personality traits severity revealed a number of differences between the values of person