The article contains the analysis of scientific approaches to understanding of organizational development in the field of educational institutions management as a complex of successive educational changes. Scientific researches on the change of education managers’ behavior in the course of changes are presented.Types of education managers attitude to changes and their quantitative expression were determined and revealed based on the data of an empirical research. Almost half of the surveyed education managers are represented by such types as “traditionalist” and “realist”, which indicates the insufficient orientation of education managers in introducing innovative changes in educational institutions. This indicates a low level of education managers’ readiness to provide the organizational development of educational institutions. The results obtained can be used by the government in developing and implementing the programs for the professional development of education managers. The authors offer the most practical tools for implementing the concept of organizational development. It is proposed to distinguish between special requirements for both professional and personal qualities of education managers.

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lexical studies, a sufficiently extensive basis for an analysis of personality lexicon is considered to be dictionaries with more than 100,000 entries. They contain between 10,000 and 15,000 nouns and adjectives that qualify as personality descriptors. Previous studies (Gorbaniuk, Markiewicz, Bą kowicz, & Ratajewska, 2010) showed that respondents generate an average of 2.36 personality descriptors per one politician. To obtain a pool of personality descriptors comparable to an average lexical study, it was necessary to test 200 respondents (2.36 descriptors per politician  31 politicians  200 subjects = 14,632 descriptors). * p < 0.05. ** p < 0.001.

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