The Components of Leadership Competences of Technical University Students

In this article, an attempt to investigate the components of leadership competences of a technical university student is made, as the question of development of managerial resources of specialist in engineering become more topical, by virtue of the growing level of society's request and expansion of social experience. Popularity of the notion of competence over the last years is conditional upon the emphasis on the efficiency of employee's activity, its correspondence to certain standards of behavior, so, the presence of certain knowledge, abilities, skills of employee leads to achieving the target. The topicality of the paper is caused by the circumstance that leadership competences as professionally required qualities of a student - the future engineer - are the main components of his professional adequacy. The purpose of the given paper is to prove theoretically and to test with experiment the complex of pedagogical conditions providing the effective development of leadership competences of a technical university student in the process of studying a humanitarian discipline "Psychological studies and education". The practical relevance consists in the growing significance of engineer's leadership and leadership abilities securing smart and effective management of working group, collective, team in conditions of growing business competitiveness and increasing demands on specialists' quality of work. Dynamic character of life and professional activity acquires from an engineer such qualities as managerial abilities, capability to join the work collective quickly, and readiness to adapt to new work conditions and to normalize the relationships between people in the process of synergy. If a student is able to master these qualities, he will achieve good results in working environment easier. (C) 2016 Published by Future Academy www.FutureAcademy.org.uk