Personality traits of department heads in the internal affairs bodies

Porshukov Andrey S. St. Petersburg University of the Russian Interior Ministry, Ministry of Russian Interior of in Krasnoyarsk Krai

Fig. 1. Respondents distribution

Fig. 2. Employees by work experience distribution

Fig. 3. Personality traits of the department heads in territorial police departments, Krasnoyarsk Krai Territory (Giselli,%)

Table 1. Management style of department heads

Management style	Description	N Respondents
Determination	The moral quality of the leader expressed in the consistent observance and upholding of certain principles, beliefs	37
Competence, search for novelty	Integral characteristics that reflect the level and nature of competence and how the person performs their activities at high level. It provides for the employee to ensure high work productivity, the effective implementation of professional activities in collaboration with other people, the presence of career-oriented qualities of the employee’s personality	44
Career efficiency	High ideology and consciousness, perseverance and strict discipline in work	32
Organizational skills	Are expressed in ordering, organization, achieving unity of work. The leaders do not only organize the activities of their subordinates, but also give them a certain focus, know how to justify the goal creating the right value orientation	41
Critical thinking and critical assessment	Determines the level of the leader’s self-esteem	39
Being demanding and taking care of others	Demanding for people, i.e. a high level of requirements for how subordinates behave and show themselves, to the quality of their behaviour. The demanding leaders expect themselves and the subordinates to be pro-active, responsible, cultured.	35
Personal responsibility	“I can” and “I must” fulfill my obligations, together with my internal duty to answer for the consequences of my actions	32
Unity of word and deed	High responsibility, discipline and culture	37
Intolerance to bureaucracy, formalism, self-satisfaction	Carrying out coercion, control and threats of punishment	31

Table 2. Career adaptability correlated with personality traits of department heads (“Adaptivity” multi-factor personality test).

Personality Traits	Career Adaptability
Prognosis Test Results	0.8267**
Eysenck EPI Neurotism Scale	0.4084**
Kokoshkarova Neurasthenia Test	0.4398**
Kokoshkarova Autonomic DisturbancesTest	0.4121**
Cattel Factor С	-0.3659*
Bass-Darki Suspicion Test	0.3097*

** – statistic verification (р≤0,01)

* – statistic verification (р≤0,05)

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