The development of managers’ personal qualities and professional skills

The article analyses the issues: what personal qualities and professional skills of managers are the most relevant in today’s world; how to improve the development of personal qualities and professional skills of managers. Managers’ personal qualities and professional skills considered by employees in Lithuanian organizations as important for managers and for employees themselves in career building were discerned with the aid of empiric research. The model for development of managers’ personal qualities and professional skills, that integrates various elements related to a manager‘s life, performance, self-development, was created. As environment of organizations is constantly changing, the author also provides recommendations on ways of improvement of development of personal qualities and professional skills that are relevant to managers