Administrative methods of economic thinking of managers

Abstract

Purpose. Identification of methods of economic thinking of a manager and implicitly detailed disclosure of the contents of the concept of economic thinking of managers. Tasks. It is necessary to specify the concept of economic thinking of a manager and proceeding from the specifics of management to identify the methods of economic thinking of managers. Methods and methodology. The author used the methodology of activity approach, as well as methods of analysis and synthesis, comparison, abstraction, generalization and specification, methods of inductive and deductive reasoning, building on this basis of the cause-effect relations as well as the transfer method from the abstract to the particular. Results. The following methods of economic thinking of a manager are identified: analysis, synthesis, abstraction, concretization, comparison, classification, generalization, limitation, categorization, induction, deduction, analogy and modeling. In the process of their implementation of objectification and disobjectification of economic activities of business entities these methods acquire the necessary socio-economic content. The provided methods in a greater degree reflect precisely the operations with concepts, judgments and conclusions, and thus, reflect the verbal-logical economic thinking of managers. Scientific novelty. The article identifies the concept of economic thinking of a manager as mental activity of management entity in the organization of economic activity of business entities of implicitly active reflection, objectification and disobjectification of the given activity in concepts, images and actions with the aim to optimize the allocation of limited resources in the relevant socio-economic management system. This concept acquires its detailed specification due to methods, which are the necessary socio-economic content and taken together holistically disclose the content of the concept of economic thinking of a manager.