Psychology of management

Managerial decision
is the following stage of managerial process. Departing from the 
point that target determination in social management is its most characteristic feature, one can 
assume that managerial cycle certainly starts from decision. Of course, goals and tasks setting is 
inherent in the most common form in both the primary function of management and the 
following ones. But, nevertheless the task-setting and defining the means to achieve them is 
intrinsic in just the decision which in this sense is the beginning, the starting point of the 
movement in the managerial process. Such movement is a precisely calculated program of all the 
managerial actions, and this program is obligatory by its nature. The whole managerial cycle is 
subordinated to the general concept of the decision which expresses with utmost intensity the 
managerial impact on the controlled system, and which contains its most essential “concentrate”, 
so to say. The process of decision-making as if gravitates other managerial functions for their 
final expression, for it is decision that has instructive-and-authoritative form. 

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5. Then follows such function as 
organization
. Here we will not consider the general 
discussion problem concerning correlation between the terms of “management” and 
“organization” because at this stage it is irrelevant for us. The “organization” function is 
understood as the kind of managerial actions connected with the structure formation of 
controlling and controlled system. The issue is the formation of governing bodies, their structure, 
personnel, legal reglamentation, material security, scientific management of labor, sociology of 
small groups, etc. This arrangement of the aforementioned directions of work organization is, in 
a way, an initial condition for ensuring the process of functioning of both subjects and objects of 
management. 
6.