What is Business Psychology ?
By Business we mean the part of social life whose function is to provide the society with the commodities they need. This takes place with the exchange of money.
Business psychology is the systematic study of the state of mind of the people at work so that several business and industrial problems can be solved and the relation with the workers and customers are improved.
Applications of Psychology in Business:
- Recruitment and selection of personnel .
- Marketing
- Ethical questions
- Supervisory tasks
- Management
- Union
- Labor Management relationship
- Mental Health of the employees
- Group working
- Social situations
Importance of Business psychology
1. Selection of proper men at proper place.
2. Proper distribution of work according to ability and attitude.
3. minimizing the wastage of human power due to fatigue , illness and accidents
4. promoting labor welfare
5. improvement in human relations
6.Improvement in industrial relations.
7.maximum production
Reasons why Psychological Principles are not applied in Bangladesh
- Absence of professional manager.
- lack of modern attitudes of the management
- abundant supply of employee.
- Psychologists are laboratory oriented and class oriented .
- Lack of idea about the psychologist in our business
- appointment of Psychologists is expensive
Psychology focuses on the Followings
- Behavior
- Perception
- A whole person
- Motivated Behavior
- Desire for involvement
- The value of a person
- Attitudes
- Personality
- Morale.
- Safety
- Training
Difference between the Management and Labor
1) Economic Aspect
2) Ego, intelligence level
3) Different perception of different people
4) Increase of production _ this can be benefit both if they agree on it . But in realty it can not be found since each gain at the expense of the other .
5) Unemployment creates psychological changes for an employee in a negative direction. The unemployed man becomes emotionally un stable, loses his/her sense of value , self confidence and acquires habit of loafing and killing time and destroyed his /her spirit.
