Intrapersonal Conflicts in Leadership

The purpose of this work is to investigate the intrapersonal conflicts that occur in the inner world of people occupying predominantly leadership positions in modern business. Intrapersonal conflicts in leadership have a significant impact on the process of creating meanings and giving meaning to various aspects of personal and organizational life. Some of these conflicts lead to the formation of fixations in the inner world of the person. This process causes rigid fixation of certain behavioral patterns and stereotypes of thinking. Some of these conflicts develop and evolve, providing growth and individual development of the individual, forming the basis of identity and being an unceasing dynamic process unique for everyone leader and for each company. Leadership for the purposes of this work is seen as a continuous process of creation meaning to the existence of the organization and its members, coupled with the management of a set of tasks that ensure the fulfillment of the organizational mission. This process takes place on the contact boundary between the person and the group. In addition, the work examines the factors contributing to the removal or strengthening of internal projective mechanisms arising within the organizational systems and systems of relations "leader - followers". The paper presents a number of practical recommendations for researching and diagnosing internal conflicts caused by the phenomenon of leadership occurring in groups, organizations and institutions. The purpose of these recommendations is to increase the effectiveness of the work and interaction of consultants with companies and individual managers. To solve the task of this work a set of techniques and techniques of individual and group work is used, and their effectiveness is analyzed.