OPTIMIZATION OF THE SOCIAL AND PSYCHOLOGICAL CLIMATE IN STATE ADMINISTRATION AND LOCAL GOVERNMENT STRUCTURES IN THE PROCESS OF IMPLEMENTATION OF DECENTRALIZATION IN UKRAINE

Abstract

The article presents the author's first model of optimization of the social and psychological climate in the collectives of state authorities and local self-government in the process of implementing the reform of local self-government and territorial organization of power, which includes three key aspects: conceptual-target, organizational-content and criterion-resultative. The author gives the psychological conditions and means of optimizing the socio-psychological climate of the organization in the process of implementing the decentralization of power, determined as a result of the formative stage of the experiment, and the methodological approaches that were used to achieve the optimization of the socio-psychological climate of the organization, which should include: complex, systemic, competence-based, transcultural, person-oriented approaches, etc. The developed program for optimizing the socio-psychological climate of the collectives of institutions is presented, which includes three content modules that reveal the essence, features, factors and ways of developing the socio-psychological climate of the organization in the conditions of implementation of decentralization. As well as the reform of local self-government and territorial organization of power involves, the transfer of powers according to the principle of subsidiarity to the lowest management level, and the cross-sectoral interaction of authorities at different levels, individual modules of the program provide for the interaction of employees at the corresponding levels: the first module focuses on optimization socio-psychological climate of collectives in the middle of the organization, the second module on establishing interaction between employees of collectives of vertical level organizations in the middle of one region (regional state/military administration, district state/military administration, executive committee of the council of the united territorial community. the third module is aimed at partnership cooperation of employees of horizontal level organizations in different regions. The positive results of the application of the model and program for optimizing the social and psychological climate of the organization in the process of implementing the decentralization of power are presented, including the effect of the experiment on the level of development of indicators of four criteria of the socio-psychological climate of collectives of state authorities and local self-government bodies in the process of implementation of power decentralization: professional awareness of activities in authorities, perceived motivation of activities in authorities, evaluative attitude to interaction in authorities, professional competitiveness in conditions of decentralization of power.