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What is the relevance of psychology to management?  

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What is the relevance of psychology to management? A definition of psychology is the characteristics of a functioning brain whose ultimate function was to control behaviour. From this we can see that there is a definite relevance of psychology to management. This is because if the management can control people's behaviour then their staff may become more productive and therefore this will be beneficial to the company. To try to prove this I will use various psychologists' opinions on the matter. These opinions will try to show how psychology has got relevance to management. There maybe be flaws in these opinions however which I will also show. However to do this I will need to show what a managers role can include and where they could use psychology to help them achieve these roles. A manager of an organisation will have various tasks. Their main objective will be to...

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