Psychology of management

Psychology of management is the branch of psychological science that studies the personality and social groups in the management system of the work collective, it is called upon to analyze personal and group functions with the aim of solving the set tasks.

Psychology of management as an object of study examines different forms of activity of people in the sphere of labor activity, joint work on the production of spiritual and material values, which require a centralized management organization.

The subject of this branch of scientific knowledge is a set of methods and techniques for managing individuals or groups, the mental states, properties and processes of people who, to varying degrees and in different ways, manifest themselves as individuals in the process of general interaction.

The subject of the study of management psychology is the leader and all the other carriers of the functional.

Psychology of management produces knowledge that is used to solve the problems of managing the work of the work collective.

Now the personality of the worker is studied by many psychological disciplines: general psychology, labor psychology, engineering psychology, social and pedagogical psychology. At the same time, the distinctive feature of management psychology is that the object of its study is concentrated on the organized activity of people. This activity is understood not just as a joint work, but as a grouping of people on the basis of common interests, values, sympathies, goals in one group, which is subject to the rules and norms of this organization.

People in this group work together according to certain economic, technological, legal, organizational and corporate requirements. The norms of organization presuppose special psychological relations in the team between its individual members - management relations.

Managerial relations coordinate the joint activities of people, making it logical and organized, which helps to achieve higher production results. Psychology of management treats each individual worker as an element of a social group, only within which one can understand his behavior.

In the management psychology, it is not the problem of the employee's correspondence to the chosen profession that is relevant, but the problem of the compliance of a certain employee of the organization in which he works or wants to work. Therefore, the subject of this discipline is not just the relations between people in the team, but the relations of people within their membership of a certain organization, that is, in such conditions when the actions of people are prescribed and subject to the general order. Part of the psychology of management is the psychology of negotiations, which significantly helps to improve the relations between employees of the enterprise.

The object of management psychology is people who are financially and legally in an organization whose activities are aimed at achieving corporate goals.

In the field of trade, the relationship between people and in the team is explored and coordinated by the psychology of trading. This discipline deals with the emotional, psychological state of traders during trading, analyzes how consciously they think and make decisions competently.

The most relevant for the organization of psychological problems are: increasing the competence of senior managers at all levels, increasing the efficiency of training and retraining of management personnel, finding the human resources of the organization, selecting management personnel for the enterprise, improving the psychological atmosphere within the organization's staff.