Dialogic competency as professional instrument of a graduate of Ukrainian technical higher schools

One of the definitive peculiarities of modern development of technical education in Ukraine is that today we have a unique process of combining technical and academic components. It is hard to imagine a modern production manager, construction designer or an ordinary engineer without this combination. The author considers such an important component of professional competency of a graduate of Ukrainian technical higher school as ‘dialogic competency’ in her scientific research. The author understands the term ‘dialogic competency’ as knowledge, skills and experience of actions in the dialogic mode, the author also gives accent to such speech genres which a specialist with higher technical education has to acquire. A graduate of a technical higher school must be able not just to distinguish the stated genres of professional dialogue, which, in the author’s opinion, are the most demanded within the system of professional relations as a production manager, but also this graduate must use them in real production situations, that is the objectives, contents, composition, way of verbal execution and statements must be taken into consideration. Result of scientific research. Young production managers must be able to execute planning functions in the process of managerial decision-making, democratization of managerial process, control, interaction both within a production company and in external contacts with clients or suppliers, in their professional activities. Taking into account such a wide specter of functional obligations, future managers must be able to master such speech genres as announcement, own thought, speech for discussion, participation in discussion, objection, proposition, oral order, instructions, consultations, recommendations, clarifications, advice, demands, application, request, order, panegyric, congratulations, reply, criticism, presentation, language-reflexion, apologetic speech, answer to a question, remark, participation in dispute, counter-arguments, specifications, comments, rebut, final word, summary. A manager must also be able to consult, provide professional recommendations, advise, express a well-reasoned thought, ask, organize presentations of ready-made production, organize advertising campaigns, hold negotiations and take part in them, take part in festivities and other events. Moreover, it is in the process of dialogic competency development when the process of students’ mastering professional speech behavior also takes place. Practical value. Graduates of technical higher schools, as a result of mastering the abovementioned genres, will be able not just to distinguish these genres of professional dialogue, which, as we have found, are the most demanded in the system of professional relations as a production manager, but also to use them in real production situations, that is to take into account the objectives, contents, composition, way of verbal execution and statement. Only in such conditions, the studying in a technical higher school will have a strict professional direction, and graduates of such an educational establishment will have a real possibility to acquire skills, due to which they will be able to manage their employees under any conditions, determine priorities in activity goals, forecast possible variants of their solution, strengthening not only methods, but also management styles depending on a certain production situation. Only in this case, when students master the necessary theoretical material, when they practice rhetorical skills, we can say that a young specialist acquires communicative competency in full capacity.