The study focuses on optimizing existing approaches to the selection of middle managers. At the present stage of Ukraine's development, the current legislation establishes formalized requirements for the selection of candidates for alternatives, which determine the main professional requirements for a candidate for the position. World-wide experience shows that selecting staff it is necessary to take into account the candidate's intra-corporate values. The combination of the characteristics of the future employee, both professional and personal, allows the employer to form a motivated team. This promotes the establishment of not only formal requirements, but also corporate, focused on the personal applicant’s qualities and inherent internal organizational culture. The sources of selection of managerial staff have been analyzed and their main advantages and disadvantages have been revealed this time. The peculiarities of the activity of middle managers taking into account their hierarchical subordination have been considered. The general characteristic of the existing system of staff selections is given. The threats and risks of recruitment from the external environment are identified and the main advantages of recruitment from the internal environment are outlined. A detailed analysis of the requirements established by the current legislation allowed to establish general qualification requirements for the replacement of management positions and to supply them with specific requirements that would take into account the specific features of the field of activity. The characteristics of the personality such as temperament, life form, leadership qualities are studied, the interrelation of these characteristics with the leadership style are revealed. The influence of the activity sphere and the degree of tasks formalization of both the leader and his subordinates on the choice of a leadership style is analyzed. The algorithm of actions at selection of leading staff of a middle link is developed and offered taking into account requirements of sphere of activity and personal qualities of the applicant. It is proposed to introduce mandatory testing of personal qualities of the applicant, taking into account the internal corporate culture of the organization.

leadership style, personal qualities, temperament, life forms, sphere of activity, personnel selection..