THE FORMATION OF THE PERSONALITY OF THE ENGINEER LEADER IN THE ASPECT OF V. SUKHMLINSKY’S PEDAGOGICAL IDEAS

The article contains the analysis conducted by the author on topicality of upbringing moral culture in future engineering leaders. Special attention is paid to national scientists’ views on the role of morality and that of its upbringing at a technical university. It is noted in the article that an important characteristic of a future engineering leader’s professional culture is the mutual connection and mutual determination between a person’s value orientation with their moral-and-ethical paradigm and professional ethics typical for their circle of communication. It is noted that the mentioned norms and principles facilitate a person’s authority and priorities consolidation not only as those of a leader, but also as a site of humaneness of interpersonal relations. The authoress stresses that moral upbringing of future engineering leaders at technical universities plays a significant role in their training because it is connected with development of an individual’s personality traits and forming a person’s attitude to others (the team, its leader), and first of all to his/her potential colleagues and subordinates.It is highlighted in the article that within the sphere of moral education of future engineering leaders, the main priorities are the following: consciousness formation, accumulation of moral experience in moral behavior skills; moral education as knowledge in the matters of moral, ethics, policy; upbringing of the feeling of personal responsibility for one’s actions, behavior, and possible outcomes of one’s professional activity; development and fixation of moral self-improvement mechanisms and of behavior’s self-regulation.There is highlighted the connection of V. Sukhomlynskiy’s ideas with leadership potential development in students and lecturers at a technical higher education establishment.The authoress highlights the following traits of a lecturer-leader: their aspiration and need in communicating with students, displaying friendliness, high communicative traits; being a decent person, having clear moral-and-ethical views and principles and following them adamantly; being able to understand those whom they train and educate; being a creative and independent person; conducting an active research and consulting activity; being tolerant and restrained, firm and persistent, being able to control themselves, their emotions and psychic state in general; being able to forecast possible pedagogic situations, to evaluate outcomes of their deeds and actions in a systematic way, of their influencing students – these teachers’ traits facilitate spirituality formation in students, future engineering leaders.There have been viewed such main methods and technologies of leadership potential development in students and lecturers at Leadership Center at the Department of pedagogy and social systems management after Academician I. A. Zaziun at NTU “KhPI” as delivering information and problem-solving lectures, discussion seminars, press-conference seminars, organizing thematic science conferences, training sessions, delivering extracurricular consultations for students.It is proved in the article that in modern conditions not enough attention is paid to personality formation in engineering leaders-to-be at technical universities, while this should be an obligatory condition of their professional growth; in the process of students’ vocational training, it is necessary to introduce V. Sukhomlynskiy’s ideas; particularly expedient is the application of active teaching methods with a distinct moral educating directedness, intensifying individual work with students, enhancing their activity in political, community, and cultural life.The authoress thinks it necessary to restore training courses in psychology studies for all students of a technical university alongside the introduction to the training process the methods and technologies developed by lecturers of the Leadership Center and the Center of Modern Pedagogic, Psychological, and Management Technologies at the Department of pedagogy and social systems management after Academician I .A. Zaziun at NTU “KhPI” on the basis of V. Sukhomlynskiy’s pedagogy.