Psychology of management

Potential of self-expression
. It characterizes the desire for self-expression, i.e. for 
displaying of all the peculiarities, inclinations, and giftednesses that a person has formed through 
life. 
The desire for self-expression is one of the most important manifestations of a 
personality. A person strives for establishing him/herself through their uniqueness. It is advisable 
to stimulate objective conditions of a person’s self-expression in a collective primarily in relation 
to his/her functional-and-role activity. 

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It is important to take into account to what extent work conditions correspond to a 
person’s mental state, professional experience, creative directedness, how they coincide or how 
they differ from the things a person believes to be his/her calling for, his/her means of creative 
self-expression. The needs in self-expression and acclaim are organically interconnected. These 
are the two most important sides of the whole complex of a person’s spiritual needs acting as a 
powerful stimulator of his/her activity. 
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Potential of mental stress
. It is characterized by the level and the range of mental 
stress demanded from an employee by his/her everyday activity. 
The criteria for establishing the optimality level of mental stress are the correspondence 
of the objective projective stress characteristics that ensures the maximum productivity growth 
on the one hand, and the space for personality development on the other hand. The latter may be 
defined through the realization of potentials of choice, renovation, and self-expression. The 
specific task of measuring this potential is to find the optimal extent of mental stress in the 
situation of correspondence of objective conditions and a person’s and the collective’s 
preferences to a quite stressful activity. G. Sellier noted in this connection that most of the 
people equally dislike both the absence of stress and the excess of it. That is why everyone 
should thoroughly study oneself and find the stress level at which (s)he feels most comfortably 
regardless of the chosen task. 
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