Organizational Psychology

In this article we generalized the results of research of person’s self-determination in business. The researches were conducted on the base of business psychology — a new applied psychology approach. We develop the approach to understanding of business as psychological activity and social environment of development of personality. On this base we study characteristics, mechanisms, and factors of social and professional development of businessmen. The article is aimed on the exploration of the personal’s problems of self-determination in business. Theoretical approach to the problem of self-determination is rather new. In one the social identity and methods of decision making process are make up an essential foundation of social and professional self-determination. By the help of this approach we picked out the concrete parameters for comparisons of people and groups. There are the results of research about businessmen’s social identity, conceptions about themselves and own activity, main problems of self-determinations in business, identity crisis, and methods of decision making process. Discovered that crisis of identity manifestations are transformation of social identity system, reduction of professional, statuses and roles characteristic in one. Main problems of self-determination of personality in business are: vagueness, role’s diffusiveness, and higher levels of demands from different social institutions. The research has disposition as flights project. In spite of this we studied some characteristics which help us to bring to light a different levels, crisis and problems of professional self-determination, and make a comparison of people between each other’s. The practical value of these business-psychology researches is determinate by the tasks of psychological consulting and coaching, training and support.