Reznik O. Psychological Characteristics of Preventing and Overcoming Bossing in the Border Guard divisions.

The dissertation deals with the psychological characteristics investigation concerning prevention and overcoming bossing in the border guard divisions. The essence, content and features of bossing in a border guard unit have been specified as well as psychological characteristics of a border guard unit chief as bossing subject have been explicated. The primary reasons of bossing occurrence are the uniformed managers’ ignorance or disregard of the military regulations of the Armed Forces of Ukraine, its usage at their discretion (commander’s subjectivity), abusive exercise of assigned power due to the poor military leaders’ training in the sphere of management activities and their psychological peculiarities. The psychological analysis of the content of the military regulations provisions which facilitate bossing manifestations by a border unit chief has been done. The algorithm of actions of a working group member to identify cases of bossing during a comprehensive survey of a border guard unit and bossing counteracting program in a border guard division have been developed. The recommendations for the border guard units’ chiefs as the subject of self-correction of the skills facilitating bossing manifestations have been substantiated on the basis of the research findings.