Motivation of the Official Interaction Between the Officer and Subordinated Informal Leaders

Abstract

This article presents results of the theoretical and empirical research, which was directed to identify psychological characteristics of the official interaction between the officer and subordinates, and psychological characteristics of its establishment. We found out that the official interaction between the officers and subordinated informal leaders depends on the level of the formed professional motivation of the officers themselves. We found out no correlation between the official interaction and variations of the professional leadership. As a result, we have defined characteristics of the existing leaders in military units, the main feature of which is the lack of focus on tasks implementation by unit. Author have made conclusion that there is a need in controlled development of the leadership in military units by enhancing the professional motivation of the officers, which increases the level of the official interaction with subordinated military leaders that have informal leadership status. We have indicated that motivation is the most complicated in purposeful impact and the basic in relation to others effective aspect of the professional military activity.