Bohunov L.A.

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.

Purpose. Disclosure of the content of an economic thinking concept of a manager in terms of its principles and tools. Tasks. It is necessary to define the notion of economic thinking in general, economic thinking of a manager in particular and further understanding of science and economic substance of a manager, to determine the principles and tools of manager’s economic thinking. The author used methods of analysis and synthesis, comparison, abstracting, generalizing and specifying, methods of inductive and deductive reasoning, building causal relationships on this basis, as well as the method of movement from the abstract to the concrete. Results. Principles of economic thinking of a manager as a management system for allocation of limited resources to meet unlimited needs, based on the organization of the system of an economic subject and proceeding from the logic of disobjectivation and objectification are: the principle of determinism, the matching principle, the principle of subsidiarity. Means of economic thinking of a manager are: verbal-logical, mathematical, information and assets. Scientific novelty. The author defined the notion of economic thinking of a manager, detailed the content of verbal-logical, mathematical, information and assets, as well as the relevant principles reflecting conditionality of individual economic thinking of a group and public economic thinking; continuity in the qualities of understanding the needs of a subject for meeting the needs and the whole system responding to the needs; the need for inclusion into the process of disobjectivation and objectification of many elements, including incompatible elements, and on that basis to build a logic of an activity system to meet varying needs or a group of needs.