The Problem of Creative Organizational Leadership in Modern Russian Politics

• Main Authors: V. V. Belov, E. V. Belova
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: North-West institute of management of the Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration 2018-07-01
• Series: Управленческое консультирование
• Subjects: long-term prosperity; sustainable development of society; political leadership; charismatic leadership; transformational leadership; functional leadership; prototypes of leadership; creative organizational leadership; a systematic approach; a descriptive dynamic model of creative organizational political leadership
• Online Access: https://www.acjournal.ru/jour/article/view/855

This article is devoted to the one of the burning problems of politology: political leadership. The urgency of the problem is due to the fact that the country’s leadership has determined (including in the President’s Address to the Federal Assembly in 2018) the strategic course of Russia’s development as a long-term prosperity of the Russian society in the face of a tougher fight in the international arena. The implementation of this course largely depends on the ruling elite. In this connection, there is a need to develop a system for “cultivating” talented political leaders. In 2017, the presidential project “Leaders of Russia” started in our country. Considering that this project is at the initial stage of implementation, and also realizing the large-scale consequences of this project for the future of Russia, there is a need for a thorough iterative conceptual study of this project.A critical analysis of existing leadership concepts has been carried out and their limitations have been revealed to understand the specifics of this type of political leadership, which is characteristic for the long stable prosperity of large organized communities of people. The necessity of developing a new concept allowing to reveal the content of a modern form of effective political leadership is grounded.On the basis of system analysis, the author’s concept of political leadership in Russia is proposed. The starting point of the study is the theoretical proposition that in each period of the development of society there is an effective type of political leadership. It can be assumed that at the present stage of the development of Russian society, this type is creative organizational leadership. At the same time, the more there are organizational creative leaders in the ruling elite, the greater the likelihood of a sustained and sustained successful development of our society. The author’s descriptive dynamic model of creative organizational political leadership is presented.