THEORETICAL ANALYSIS OF THE IMPORTANCE OF AN ORGANIZATIONAL PSYCHOLOGIST’S PERSONAL QUALITIES IN THEIR PROFESSIONAL ACTIVITY

Abstract

 The article provides theoretical analysis of the problem of an organizational consultant’s personal qualities and their role in ensuring the professional activity’ success of the given branch’ specialist. It is noted that in organizational psychology there are different approaches to determining the personal qualities and professional competencies which the organizational consultant should possess. It is interesting that the issue of the role of the organizational consultant’s personal qualities in their professional activity has not been widely spread in scientific researches in contrast to the attention paid to the personal qualities of the psychologist-consultant. On the basis of theoretical analysis of domestic and foreign scientific works personal qualities and characteristics, which are essential in the work of the organizational consultant, are presented, their significance in their professional activity is substantiated.

The analysis has been made of the components of the organizational consultant’s professional activity, which are not defined as personal qualities of the latter, but are either derived from or related to them, and therefore directly depend on the personality sphere of the consultant. They include professional qualifications, professional skills, professional competencies and guidelines of the professional consultant's work, their professional behavioral roles.

Our vision on the structure of the personal and professional qualities of the organizational consultant is presented, the basis of which is made by the correlation of personal qualities of the consultant in the field of psychological consulting and in the field of organizational consulting.

It is concluded that modern management psychology has insufficient number of researches of this problem, both theoretical and empirical. Accordingly, the prospect of further research should be the extension of the field of research as for the role of personal qualities of organizational consultant in their professional activity.