BUSINESS GAME AS A METHOD OF FORMING A PROFESSIONAL ORIENTATION OF FUTURE MANAGERS IN EDUCATION

Abstract

In the article the questions of a business game’s usage are examined as an active method of teaching of future managers in education. The article considers approaches to the definition of a business game. A business game is examined as one of the facilities of simulate the professional activity in an educational process, which gives possibility to discover and co-ordinate the features of activity of participants of production processes, work off a ground and acceptance of administrative decisions, develop and fasten professional knowledges and form skills of their creative use in practical activity. Basic professional abilities which are formed in the pro- cess of business game are certain. Among them there are abilities to inculcate the mechanisms of effective re- alization of organization corporate policy, work out the basic problems of management process and determine
reasons of conflicts in a collective and ways of their overcoming. The features of different types of business game are reflected in this article, a business game that can be used during the process of teaching the discipline of «Technician of administrative activity» is offered. One of variants of the usage the method of «six hats of thought» is described in the article. It is well-proven that business games at preparation of managers give stu- dents the concrete picture of future professional activity, develop analytical capabilities and form the integral concept system. In the process of game future specialists can find out the capacities and fitness for professional activity; such administrative qualities are formed as how to find out different problems, collect and analyses information, accept administrative decisions as independently so in co-operating with other workers.