Psychology of management

 
 
 
 
 

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Topic 3.Psychological Theories of Management 
1. Theory and practice of management 
- Europe 
- the USA 
- Japan 
- Russia 
References 
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Theory and Practice of Management 
The history of management goes back deep into the past, thousands years before the new 
era. Back in Ancient Egypt there have been formed distinctive features of managerial science-to-
be, in particular there was recognized the necessity of planning, organizing and control, of 
management processes’ centralizing. Such philosophers of Ancient Greece as Socrates, Plato, 
and Aristotle expressed their views on state management and that of slaveholding estates. 
There were three factors that served as an incentive to theory of management shaping, 
namely, exhaustion of the extensive way of development, aggravation of competitiveness, and 
intensification of the search enterprises operation efficiency improvement on account of internal 
resources. As a result of these factors’ influence and in connection with the emergence of 
scientific foundations for research in this sphere, in the beginning of the XXth century there were 
laid the bases of management in the European and American sciences. 

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Europe 
As the foundation for management’s emergence and development there served the works 
by Max Weber (1864 – 1920). In his books “The history of economy” and “Protestant ethics and 
the spirit of capitalism” Weber analyzed the spiritual sources of Protestantism in the ethics of 
labor at capitalist enterprises. He believed that in the basis of capitalistic organization of an 
enterprise lies the idea of labor actions’ rationalization. Weber introduced the notion of “ideal 
type of action” and sorted out four such types: 
a) traditional; 
b) affective; 
c) value-rational; 
d) aim-and-rational. 
The last one,