PEDAGOGICAL CONDITIONS FOR PRODUCTIVE APPLICATION OF SIMULATION GAMES FOR FORMING BUSINESS COMMUNICATION SKILLS OF FUTURE BACHELORIES OF STATE AND MUNICIPAL MANAGEMENT

Abstract

The modern system of higher education is increasingly turning to the positive experience of including its participants in various business games. The dynamic and interactive nature of these teaching methods, which forms the communication skills of future managers, determines their universal recognition among the pedagogical community. In the light of these facts, one of the successful practices for teaching future bachelors of state and municipal administration can rightfully be considered simulation games. The study is based on ideas of V.A. Sukhomlinsky. His works on the educative power of collective activity, which forms the personality, also turned out to be consonant with the essence of the declared teaching method. The type of business game under study is aimed at educating the value attitude of future management personnel towards collective, cooperative work. Within the study, conditions for the productive use of simulation games for the formation of business communication skills of future bachelors of state and municipal administration are identified and characterized: 1) the development of speech expressiveness for the successful implementation of various roles in simulation games; 2) mastering the methods of effective communication in the process of imitating games; 3) the use of high-quality methodological and reference materials for a full-fledged imitation of a professional environment. To conclude, the prospects for further research of simulation games are revealed, as the main resource for the formation of communicative skills of future bachelors.