Psychology of management

4. Ways of regulation of social-and-psychological climate 
Social-and-psychological climate is formed under the influence of psychological 
mechanisms of collective activity regulation – adaptation, communication, and integration. 
Social-and psychological adaptation
supposes active acceptance and adoption of values 
and norms, and established traditions by new members of a work group. Lack of it makes it 
impossible for a person to be involved in the informal structure, to use the forms of individual 
qualities realization common for this group, to realize oneself. 
Communication supposes an active information exchange and group members’ mutual 
spiritual enrichment. Through communication not only production management is fulfilled, but 
also the formation of social-and-psychological climate. A manager should see to it that 
employees could communicate with each other within reasonable limits, and at the same time 
(s)he must suppress discussing people’s private life in their absence, gossip, and reporting on 
others. 

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Successful realization of the integration process leads to collective’s turning into a 
unified, self-regulating social mechanism well-adapted to mutual and individual activity. 
Orderliness, harmony, and psychological compatibility enable a work group to independently 
choose the optimal forms of activity ensuring successful fulfilment of a task and the utmost 
disclosure of every individual’s personality, creative potential. 
One person, even vested with managerial authorities, will not create a favourable social-
and-psychological climate. This is a matter of the whole collective. That is why it is very 
important that not a single person in a collective should adamantly stand up for stable situation 
and creative, constructive beginning in all matters. Experienced, qualified employees can render 
a great assistance in eliminating calamities, pessimism, decadence, and even panic in collectives. 
So, a collective has to be brought up, or educated. 
Education is a stable, wholesome, and unidirectional process of influencing people’s 
social attitudes and expectations carried out in accordance with certain goals. 
Educational influences may also be unconscious in character. Even when setting some 
goals, a manager often does not realize that (s)he uses inadequate educational means for these 
goals, or on the contrary, (s)he can intuitively select correct methods and means of influence.
The level of realizing and the behavioral skills of a person or a group of people be 
considered the main result of education. 
What is it important for a person 
to realize
in a collective? First of all, the grade of 
involvement with an organization, social importance of the manufactured production, or 
rendered service and the personal profit from the activity performed. 
What behavioral skills is it important to form? First of all, these are