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Regardless of the field of activity, managers work with people. Not only those, who are called managers by their title, belong to the category of managers. Business owners and plant foremen, supervisors and heads of departments, commanders of military units and coaches of athletic teams, and many others - all fall into the category of managers by their functions. In our work, we will describe the most important managerial functions of the psychological nature and make an attempt to shed light on a new understanding of these functions from the activity theory (AT) perspective.
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Voskoboynikov, F. (2018). Activity Approach in Management. In: Baldwin, C. (eds) Advances in Neuroergonomics and Cognitive Engineering. AHFE 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 586. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60642-2_36
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