INVESTIGATING THE ISSUE OF COMMUNICATIVE AND ORGANIZATIONAL SKILLS IN PSYCHOLOGY

Abstract

Understanding communicative and organizational abilities in contemporary psychological theories is crucial, particularly in an era dominated by information and technology. Enhancing communication effectiveness and interaction skills is a pressing challenge, making the study of communicative competence and organizational abilities highly relevant. This paper systematically reviews key theoretical developments in this field. Russian psychologists, such as S.L. Rubinstein, A.G. Kovalev, and others, have contributed to the research on communicative abilities, employing various terms like communicative competence and socio-psychological competence. However, a clear differentiation between these terms is yet to be achieved. According to the personality-activity approach, communicative abilities are socio-historically rooted and shaped through practical communication. They are individual-psychological traits reflecting success in communicative tasks. G.S. Vasilyev and A.A. Kidron offer early insights into communicative abilities. Vasilyev defines them as facilitating successful communication, while Kidron views them as a general capacity linked to personality substructures. Kidron identifies levels of communicative ability manifestation, including cognitive, cognitive-expressive, expressive, expressive-interactional, and interactional abilities.