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«IZVESTIYA IRKUTSKOGO GOSUDARSTVENNOGO UNIVERSITETA». SERIYA «PSICHOLOGIYA»
«THE BULLETIN OF IRKUTSK STATE UNIVERSITY». SERIES «PSYCHOLOGY»
ISSN 2304-1226 (Print)

List of issues > Series «Psychology». 2025. Vol 53

Leadership in the Context of a Competency-Based Approach

Author(s)

E. A. Kedyarova1, I. A. Konopak1, N. I. Chernetskaya1, E. A. Sukneva1

1 Irkutsk State University, Irkutsk, Russian Federation 

Abstract
A review of research on leadership in the context of the competence approach is presented. It is shown that within the framework of the competence approach, leadership competence is considered both as an important part of professional competence, since leadership competencies ensure the successful activity of specialists in various fields (managerial, pedagogical, psychological, etc.), and as a partial diffuse element of communicative competence, since the essence of this competence is reflected in a number of leadership abilities and qualities. It is shown that the competence-based approach to leadership is a natural result of the complication of the content of this phenomenon. The consistency of the competency-based approach to leadership with the most noticeable trends in the interpretation of its content in modern psychology (leadership as service, leadership as responsibility, etc.) and with changing standards of educational practice is also shown.
About the Authors

Kedyarova Elena Alexandrovna, Candidate of Sciences (Psychology), Associate Professor, Head of the Department of Educational and Developmental Psychology, Irkutsk State University 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation e-mail: kedu_72@mail.ru 

Konopak Igor Aleksandrovich, Candidate of Sciences (Philosophy), Associate Professor, Dean of the Faculty of Psychology 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation e-mail: iakonopak@gmail.com 

Chernetskaya Nadezhda Igorevna, Doctor of Sciences (Psychology), Professor of the Department of Educational and Developmental Psychology 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation e-mail: cherna@yandex.ru 

Sukneva Elena Alexandrovna, Senior Lecturer of the Department of Educational and Developmental Psychology 1, K. Marx st., Irkutsk, 664003, Russian Federation e-mail: lena_sukneva@mail.ru

For citation
Kedyarova E.A., Konopak I.A., Chernetskaya N.I., Sukneva E.A. Leadership within the Framework of Competence-Based Approach. The Bulletin of Irkutsk State University. Series Psychology, 2025, vol. 53, pp. 59-70. https://doi.org/10.26516/2304-1226.2025.53.59 (in Russian)
Keywords
leadership, competence, leadership competence, competence-based approach, competence-based approach to leadership.
UDC
159.9.07
DOI
https://doi.org/10.26516/2304-1226.2025.53.59
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