Psychology of management

Small people have a space where to grow. 
Dreams, hopes, and joys will not come true if you don’t invest labor, blood, sweat, and 
tears.
 

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2. The tasks of the leader’s psychology of management course. 
Nowadays at technologically forward enterprises of industrial countries the most 
important place in exercising of managerial influence is taken by psychology which with utmost 
efficiency enables to perform interaction between a leader-executive and employees, to organize 
work in such a way that employees were satisfied to the maximum extent not only with the 
remuneration for their labor, but also enjoyed the process of labor itself. 
To this effect managerial and leadership work should be filled with conscious 
psychological content and its being taken into account is not just a good intention, but an 
obligatory requirement for managers of all ranks. A modern organization’s executive is not a 
soloist, but a conductor of a choir whose concurrence determines the harmonious evolvement of 
the cause he serves for. 
The personnel training system of nearly all specialities includes such a subject as 
“Management Psychology”. Work efficiency of any member of administrative staff at any level 
depends largely on the one hand on the ability to correctly evaluate their employees, to discover 
the motives of their behavior, and, on the other hand, on the ability to evaluate their own work 
correctly from the psychological point of view. Only a real leader can cope with performing such 
a wide spectrum of tasks. 
This semester we are going to view the updated subject “Leader’s Psychology of 
Management”. This change in the title of the course is not accidental and is caused by several 
reasons. 
Firstly, this is an ever growing interest of science in the problem of leadership. For many 
years the problem of leadership was not seriously considered by scientists. Most publications on 
this topic were mostly of popular science character. As for the latest years, scientists in many 
branches – psychologists, sociologists, and even neurophysiologists started paying their attention 
to the problems of leadership. 
Secondly, the interest to the problems of leadership is caused by the growing practical 
needs not only in executives with managerial education, but in real leaders capable of inspiring 
others by their example. 
The third reason is directly connected with our department. The leadership and 
management problems were central in our researches and the disciplines taught since the 
moment our department was founded. Developments in leadership topics, conducted by 
scientists of our department and by myself, got an acclaim not only in our country, but also 
abroad. A sign of recognition of our success in this sphere is our obtaining a grant on conducting 
scientific research on the topic of “Educational Leadership through Innovations, Technologies 
and Euro-integration” provided within the TEMPUS project. 

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This project is aimed at the leading higher education establishments which have an 
opportunity to ensure effective university management and guarantee quality of higher education 
in accordance with European values and national priorities of Ukraine. 
The main applicant for the grant is Kaunas technological university (Lithuania). 
As European partners act: 
Tampere University (Finland), 
Greenwich University (London, Great Britain), 
Ranmore Consulting Group (London, Great Britain), 
Antwerp University (Belgium), 
Tallin University (Estonia). 
Leader’s psychology of management is a branch of psychology which studies 
psychological patterns of a leader’s managerial activities.