Diagnostics of the ability of the management-leader to interact efficiently

The article is devoted to the issue of diagnostics of ability of a manager-leader to interact efficiently. It conducts a theoretical analysis of a list of qualities of an efficient manager and leader. It specifies the qualities that provide the manager's ability to conduct efficient social interaction. They include organisational qualities and social perception. The article offers methods of their diagnostics, namely: "Psychological assessment of organisational abilities of a person in a group" and "Diagnostics of perceptive and interactive competence". Approbation of these methods at five enterprises of the Kharkiv region showed that the level of development of organisational qualities and perceptive and interactive competence of managers is average. The article proves that managers of Ukrainian enterprises not yet ready to be also leaders to their personnel. The article offers to develop ability of a manager-leader to interact efficiently through obtaining new information about specific features of manager's interaction with other people, re-thinking of own self and own behaviour, structuring new forms of behaviour and regulation of inter-personal interaction and securing positive experience under conventional situations of managerial interaction with the help of trainings.