Situational Tasks Usage in the Professional Training of Socio-Cultural Activity Managers

Abstract

Introduction. Cultural and creative industries play an essential role in the modern economy. That is why the question of socio-cultural sphere management has become very significant. Due to the manager's involvement in this process, whose activity content is in managing and expanding cultural values and cultural product production, there is a necessity for innovative methods identification in socio-cultural activity managers' professional training. Purpose and methods. In the research process, general scientific methods as analysis, synthesis, systematization, and generalization of theoretical principles have been used, as well as specific scientific methods of terminological analysis, retrospective, biographical, comparison, concretization and classification, and empirical methods of discussion and pedagogical observation.  Results. The importance of situational tasks as a dominant organizational form of socio-cultural activity managers' training has been clarified. Topics of situational tasks have been developed, which have been formed in the blocks. Situational tasks types have been characterized: “on the mobile decision”, “on decision choice”, “on data analysis”, “example tasks”, “on justification”, “on abilities and skills formation”, “on argumentative decision”, “on decision taken analysis”, “on information search”, “on complication”, “on algorithm production” and “on foresight”. The structure and content of the situational task have been analyzed and recommended professional situations in management have been presented. Conclusions. The scientific novelty of obtained results is in the theoretical support of the situational tasks usage necessity as an organizational form of problematic education in the training of managers, and practical value is in their competitiveness advancing.