Leadership in Social and Psychological Characteristics of Group Interactions in Management

Our paper focuses on the social and psychological relations within the framework of leadership positions and group interaction in management. Leadership characterizes psychological relations that arise in the group “vertically,” that is, from the point of view of relations of domination and subordination. Leadership is a process of influence on people, generated by a system of informal relations, and leadership implies the existence of clearly structured, formalized relations it is realized through. The role of the manager is thus predetermined by structure. Leadership arises and is formed spontaneously, at the level of unconscious or semi-conscious psychological preferences. Psychological studies convincingly prove that not only the real interaction of people changes their attitude to each other, but also the expectation of this interaction. Consequently, social perception, aimed at creating personal ideas about oneself and about others, a social group, is determined by the type and nature of the interaction (including the intended). We believe that this process is one of the most significant in terms of the interaction and interdependence of the individual and the group. Knowledge of psychological processes and personality traits, its individual psychological characteristics, as well as the mechanisms and errors of social perception is not just important, but necessary as part of group interaction in management.