Socio-psychological Characteristics of the Innovative Potential of Students as Indicators of Professional Elitism in a Digital Society

Abstract

The digital society and, in particular, the digital economy require the employee to have certain competencies that aren’t limited to computer literacy, information competencies, etc. The so-called soft skills become very popular, among which an important place is occupied by effective thinking skills, self-management skills, communication and managerial skills [2]. Soft skills are considered as a style of behavior that combines the parameters of social flexibility and individual activity. In turn, the ability to build business communications in the business environment, teamwork skills, leadership, and behavioral flexibility are decisive for innovative personality behavior, which is an integral indicator [6] of professional elitism of the personality and determines the person’s ability to be adaptive to changes, generate changes, new forms of behavior and activities, change yourself, successfully carry out activities aimed at developing, implementing and disseminating new ideas, products, and technologies [3–5]. The article presents the results of a study of the sociopsychological characteristics of students’ innovative potential, including value orientations, professional motivation, socio-psychological qualities, as a condition for further professional implementation [1]. It’s proved that studentswith different levels of development of innovative potential prefer to work in companies with different types of organizational values (adochocratic,market, clan, hierarchical types of organizational culture); studentswith a high level of innovative potential to amuch greater degree show leadership qualities, are focused on the role of entrepreneur and senior manager.