Rodina N. Personality features of medium-level managers in crisis situations: the psychodynamic approach.

The object of the research – psychological peculiarities of a personality of company’s manager. The aim – to ascertain the main individual peculiarities of managers of a secondary rank that stipulate their adaptation to crisis situations by means of psychodynamic approach. The methods - theoretical, empirical, statistical. The results and novelty - the author elaborates the theoretical model of the structure of individual which enables to determine the peculiarities of managers’ behavior in crisis situations; the former comprises several levels: the unconscious, conscious and declarative. The author substantiates the adequacy of using the psychodynamic approach to determining the factors which are in the subconscious of an individual and regulate its behaviour in crisis situations; ascertains the factors connected with individual peculiarities of managers of secondary rank of commercial and state structures in crisis situations. The practical value – possibility to use the obtained results in formingthe service of psychological support in work with staff during social and economical crisis in Ukraine. The empirical research contributes to solving the problem of psychological providing of professional activity. The subject and degree of introduction – the main results of the research were introduced to academic courses in the process of professional training of students and work of the company “Fozzy – South” and introduces into practice of professional psychological selection the improved tech-nology of psychological selection by means of the methods of projective diagnostics. The efficacy of introduction – high. The branch – psychological, administrative counseling.