Organizations on the couch : clinical perspectives on organizational behavior and change
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Organizations on the couch : clinical perspectives on organizational behavior and change
(The Jossey-Bass management series)
Jossey-Bass, 1991
1st ed
Available at 17 libraries
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  Iwate
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  Hiroshima
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Description and Table of Contents
Description
In this text, specialists in psychoanalysis and organizational behaviour demonstrate how the psychoanalytic perspective can be successfully applied to analyzing and changing unhealthy but deeply-rooted organizational behaviours, such as addiction to power and the undermining of personal responsibility. Offering in-depth case examples, they help managers and consultants deepen their understanding of organizational culture and decision making, leader/follower dynamics, organizational stress, and other factors that affect efforts to create change.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: exploding the myth that organizations and executives are rational. Part 1 New perspectives on organizations: using psychoanalytic frameworks for organizational analysis
- diagnosing organizations systematically
- exploring the dynamics of leadership. Part 2 The leadership conundrum: leading and managing - understanding the difference
- on becoming a CEO - transference and the addictiveness of power
- intention and strategic action - the impact of the unconscious processes of top executives. Part 3 Change processes in work groups: managing boundaries in organizations
- stresses of group membership - balancing the needs for independence and belonging
- dealing with the anxiety of working - social defences as coping strategy. Part 4 The question of organizational character: leadership styles and organizational cultures - the shaping of neurotic organizations
- how bureaucracy discourages responsibility
- organizational decay and loss of reality - life at NASA. Part 5 Organizational consultation and change: understanding the dynamics between consulting teams and client systems
- the psychodynamics of upheaval - intervening in merger and acquisition transitions
- changing organizations and individuals - psychoanalytic insights for improving organizational health
- epilogue - struggling with the demon - confronting the irrationality of organizations and executives.
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