LEADERSHIP BEHAVIOR IN COMPETENCY MODELS IN A COMPARATIVE CONTEXT. EXAMPLES FROM BULGARIA, GREAT BRITAIN AND BELGIUM

Abstract

The article encourages the discussion on approaches to integrating leadership competencies into competency-based management models. As a starting point of the research, we accept that leadership competence is a tool for effective management of the potential of various teams and administrative units. Executives through leadership behaviour can influence the authority of the administration, promote a culture of learning in the workplace, improve organizational and individual outcomes, create partnerships. The Bulgarian model is a subject of in-depth research in a separate publication of the author. The purpose of the present article is to systematize in a short statement the Bulgarian experience on the topic of leadership competencies of managers and on this basis to seek for opportunities for changes and improvements by studying the British and Belgian experience.