This programme aims to train expert psychologists for work in businesses including profit making companies, firms and other institutions aimed at production of goods and services. In international practice such experts are called business psychologists.

Students learn to study a business as an organization, an activity and a social institution, examine its influence over the social and professional development of a personality; master the principles and technologies of psychological support for business organization, individual and group consulting as well as education within a company.

The main subject area of theoretical and practical education within the course is related to the psychology of business – a modern branch of psychology which is at the cross-section of organizational and social psychology, labour psychology and psychology of personality, as well as economics, sociology and management. Much attention is paid to the problems of economic psychology related to the study of economic conscience of personality and society as well as the psychology of entrepreneurship and consumer behaviour psychology.

Students’ research work is organized as part of a permanent methodological seminar which functions as a tool to discuss research plans and ideas which will then be implemented in a master’s thesis. The main areas of students’ research are determined by the most relevant topics of business psychology, economic and organizational psychology:

• Psychology of personality and activity of business subjects;
• Psychological problems of property relations;
• Psychology of employment and unemployment;
• Psychology of consumer behaviour;
• Relations between a personality and an organization;
• Psychological problems of labour motivation.

In February 2011 a research group on Psychology of Business was created under the auspices of the master’s course. Master’s and postgraduate students of the Department of Organizational Psychology actively participate in the work of this research group.

Past graduates of this programme have taken up employment as consultant psychologists, experts in organizational development, HR managers, HR directors, business trainers, training managers etc..