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The Psychodynamics of Work and Organizations

Author : William M. Czander
Publisher : Guilford Press
ISBN 13 : 9780898622843
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (228 download)

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Download or read book The Psychodynamics of Work and Organizations written by William M. Czander and published by Guilford Press. This book was released on 1993-07-15 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An individual's working life undergoes the same intrapsychic conflicts as other aspects of experience. Yet, as a subject of psychoanalytic inquiry, the world of work has largely been ignored. In this innovative book, William M. Czander demonstrates that applying depth psychology to the organization and its employees provides a deeper understanding of the American workplace than traditional industrial psychology has offered. Using a psychoanalytic framework, Czander examines such issues as interactions between employees and management, the conscious and unconscious forces that bind fellow employees together, and the role of autonomy in people's lives. Most important, he details a means of intervention in the form of organizational consultation based on this more profound conceptualization of the dynamics of the workplace. The first section of the book presents theoretical background, and the second applies theory to specific cases. Czander presents three major theories of psychoanalysis as they relate to work and the organization: Freudian and classical psychoanalytic theory, object relations theory, and self psychology theory. He explores how a psychoanalyst thinks about work and how work and the organization interact with the employees' unconscious motivations and ideation. He then applies these theories to actual case studies of organizational consultations. The consultation process is explained, including how a particular diagnosis and rationale for intervention is obtained. Czander concludes with a discussion of the practice of psychoanalytic consulting and its utility and relevance to the world of contemporary organizations. Providing illuminating discussion on myriad issues related to the psychology of the workplace, this book is an ideal resource for a variety of mental health professionals: psychoanalysts especially interested in organizational consulting, organizational psychologists desiring a new perspective on their work, and clinicians from different disciplines whose clients are struggling with issues surrounding their work environments. It serves as an advanced text for courses in industrial organization, clinical and social work, and business management.

The Workplace Within

Author : Larry Hirschhorn
Publisher : MIT Press
ISBN 13 : 9780262581011
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (81 download)

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Download or read book The Workplace Within written by Larry Hirschhorn and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 1990-01-24 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revealing study, Larry Hirschhorn examines the rituals, or social defenses, organizations develop to cope with change. Using extended ease studies from offices, factories, and social services, he describes why these often irrational practices that fragment and injure individuals within the workplace exist, how they operate, and how they can be reshaped to enhance people's work experience.

Psychodynamic Organisational Theory

Author : Jacob Alsted
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429675496
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (296 download)

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Download or read book Psychodynamic Organisational Theory written by Jacob Alsted and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-09-02 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the surface, people go to work and come home again. They sometimes manage people while most are managed themselves. But beneath the function and structures of the work itself, a whole range of emotions affects the success of the relationship between employee and manager and ultimately the organisation they both belong to. Psychodynamic Organisational Theory: Key Concepts and Cases provides a comprehensive but accessible introduction to this fascinating field of study. Featuring case vignettes which bring the various concepts to life, the book is divided into four parts. Part I looks at how the individual relates to the organisation and the unconscious energies they bring, while Part II examines group dynamics and how they affect productivity, including a chapter on meetings. Part III explores the realm of leadership and what roles a manager can play in managing their staff, while Part IV introduces the idea of personality and describes how the manager’s personality influences management dynamics as well as the wider organisational culture. Central to the book, as well as the idea that organisational phenomena are often unconscious, is the understanding that relationships are always reciprocal. Through complex psychological dynamics manager and employee influence and change each other during the process of managing and being managed. This text will be essential reading for students and scholars of leadership, HRM, and organizational psychology, as well as consultants and managers looking for practical insights into how human relationships affect the success of every organisation.

Family Psychodynamics in Organizational Contexts

Author : Steen Visholm
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000381706
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Family Psychodynamics in Organizational Contexts written by Steen Visholm and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-06-20 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fascinating book shows how an understanding of the psychodynamics of the extended family, from parental relations to sibling rivalries, can provide insight into many of the key issues faced by organizations today. Covering topics such as change management, creativity, autonomous groups, leadership and democracy, it shows how deep-rooted family dynamics unconsciously frame the way we relate to each other in the workplace, and how they can have a profound influence on the broader trajectory of organizations. This book features: Examples on how to use the extended family as a framework for understanding organizational behaviour. A look beyond parental relationships to discuss sibling relationships as well. Examples to illustrate key topics of practical relevance to consultants and managers. Family Psychodynamics in Organizational Contexts is an important read for students and scholars of organizational psychology, organizational studies and psychodynamics, as well as consultants and coaches working in organizational contexts.

The Psychodynamics of Toxic Organizations

Author : Howard F. Stein
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000077454
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Psychodynamics of Toxic Organizations written by Howard F. Stein and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-05-06 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Understanding experience at work, especially in toxic organizations, is a multidimensional undertaking that must include all senses. The use of applied poetry has its primary value as an evocative approach to sensing, knowing, and understanding workplace experience. Poetry at its best condenses into relatively few words, metaphors, and images what conventional social science narratives would take much longer to articulate. Where poetry often hints and alludes, narrative seeks to spell out, expound, and complete. Where poetry leaves much mental space for the listener or reader to fill in with one’s imagination, narrative fills in the spaces with rich detail. Applied poetry and its contextual stories offer a way of accessing workplace experience that is unique and valuable in terms of understanding lives at work. The use of complementary psychodynamic theories, like all theories, is a way of trying to account for what we have found and experienced and in particular why it happened. "Why," the authors suggest, is critical in terms of understanding the sensing, images, and metaphors evoked by the poetry and stories that may resonate with hearers and readers for reasons that are unconscious and are rooted in the past. These transferences that come forward from life experience into the present are the critical data we work with. These are the data of psychoanalysis. This book both widens and deepens the scope of organizational research offered by other researchers, theorists, and approaches to understanding, interpreting, explaining, leading, and consulting with workplace organizations. Its triangulating integration of applied poetry, experience and stories behind the poetry, and the three psychoanalytic models of explaining life in workplaces, is a new and distinct contribution to organizational research, leadership, and consulting efforts to help organization members solve real, underlying problems and not offer simplistic, formulaic solutions based solely on a study of the organization’s surface. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of organizational studies, leadership, and management.

The Systems Psychodynamics of Organizations

Author : Laurence J. Gould
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429922388
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book The Systems Psychodynamics of Organizations written by Laurence J. Gould and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-30 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This authoritative source book on the learning and creative application of the systems psychodynamic perspective defines the field, presenting the key concepts, models, and social methodologies that derive from it, together with their theoretical and conceptual underpinnings in psychoanalysis, group relations and open systems theory.

Private Selves in Public Organizations

Author : M. Diamond
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230620094
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Private Selves in Public Organizations written by M. Diamond and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores organizations as not simply rational, technological structures and networks for organizing people around tasks and services; it defines organizations as relational, experiential, and perceptual systems.

The Unconscious at Work

Author : Anton Obholzer
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351104144
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book The Unconscious at Work written by Anton Obholzer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-02-08 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why do our organizations so often seem to be less than the sum of their parts? What undermines effectiveness and morale, and gets in the way of achieving what we set out to do? The Unconscious at Work, Second Edition draws on a body of thinking and practice which has developed over the past 70 years, often referred to as 'the Tavistock approach' or 'systems-psychodynamics'. All the contributors are practising consultants who draw on this framework, bringing it alive and making it useful to any reader – manager, leader or consultant, regardless of whether they have any prior familiarity with the underlying concepts – who is curious about what might be driving the puzzling or stressful situations they find in their workplace. The First Edition was addressed to people working in 'the human services': health, social care and education. Since it was published in 1994, there has been growing interest in the business world, and in understanding more about the 'irrational' side of organizational life. Therefore, this Second Edition includes an entirely new section where the key ideas are revisited and illustrated with case studies from a wide range of business organizations, from large corporations to start-ups and family businesses. The aim, however remains the same: to enlarge readers' existing sense-making 'tool-kits' so that they can look at themselves and their organizations with fresh eyes, deepening the emotional intelligence they bring to bear on the challenges they face and providing new possibilities for action. The Unconscious at Work, Second Edition is for managers, leaders, consultants, and anyone working in organizations who has been puzzled, disturbed or challenged by their experiences at work.

The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis

Author : Kenneth Eisold
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1315390078
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (153 download)

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Download or read book The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis written by Kenneth Eisold and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-07-14 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis is a wide-ranging exploration and examination of the organizational conflicts and dilemmas that have troubled psychoanalysis since its inception. Kenneth Eisold provides a unique, detailed, and closely reasoned account of the systems needed to carry out the tasks of training, quality control, community building, and relationships with the larger professional community. He explores how the freedom to innovate and explore can be sustained in a context where the culture has insisted on certain standards being set and enforced, standards that have little to do with providing effective pathways to cure. Each chapter in this collection addresses a specific dilemma faced by the profession, including: Who is to be in charge of training and who will determine those who succeed the existing leadership? Which theories and practices are to be approved and which proscribed and censored? How is the competition with alternative methods, including psychotherapy informed by psychoanalysis, to be managed? Several chapters are devoted to exploring the reciprocal influence of Freudian psychoanalysis and Jungian Analytical Psychology. Others explore the specific dilemmas and difficulties affecting the field currently, stemming from the massive restructuring of the health care industry and the changes affecting all professions, as they are reshaped into massive organizations no longer marked by personal relationships and individual control. The Organizational Life of Psychoanalysis will be essential reading for psychoanalysts, psychoanalytic psychotherapists, and anyone interested in the future of psychoanalysis as a profession. It will appeal greatly to anyone who has assumed full or partial responsibility for the management of a psychoanalytic institute or association.

Humanness in Organisations

Author : Leopold S. Vansina
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429914652
Total Pages : 309 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Humanness in Organisations written by Leopold S. Vansina and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 309 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Humanness in Organizations is a unique contribution from the social sciences to the betterment of organizational life. The authors argue that working life can only become more humane when we change the conditions that consciously or unconsciously steer people away from consideration, friendship and integrity. The aim of this book is twofold: first, to take a closer look at the current practices of managers, academics, and consultants, and how they affect organizational conditions, work and the well-being of people. The critical studies presented here explore and develop the likely consequences of these practices for the future. Second, the authors wish to familiarize readers with 'actionable knowledge' in order to create alternative practices and conditions that enable the whole person to engage in healthier interactions both in and with his organization. Nine social scientists from Europe or the United States, each with an established reputation in the field of consulting with a psychodynamic or 'clinical perspective', have contributed their experiences and studies to the book.

Psychodynamic Coaching

Author : Claudia Nagel
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351199617
Total Pages : 129 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Psychodynamic Coaching written by Claudia Nagel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Psychodynamic Coaching: Distinctive Features, Claudia Nagel presents a comprehensive overview of the unique features of psychodynamic coaching. As leaders and managers acknowledge the need to understand themselves and their context by looking underneath the surface to improve their decision-making, psychodynamic approaches offer unique insight. Psychodynamic Coaching: Distinctive Features covers not only the major theory but also the practice of coaching, giving guidance from beginning to end of the client relationship. Constructive, holistic and accessible, it demonstrates the impact and dynamics of the unconscious whilst illustrating the power of understanding human behaviour in the complexity of the modern world. With a focus on emotions and relationships in supporting modern leaders adapting to organsational challenges, this book will be an invaluable tool for coaches of all backgrounds, academics and students of coaching and organisational behaviour, and also clinicians. It will also be a key resource for senior leaders for their own personal growth.

The Unconscious Life of Organizations

Author : Michael A. Diamond
Publisher : Praeger
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Unconscious Life of Organizations written by Michael A. Diamond and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1993-06-30 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers a contemporary psychodynamic view of organizational life. Michael Diamond stresses the unconscious dimensions of hierarchic and other work relationships in organizations. From these relationships, he argues, come not only organizational cultures but also organizational identities. The book transcends the common technical rational approach to organizational behavior by isolating and then analyzing the nonrational side of organizational experience. Diamond illustrates how different characteristics of organizational life emerge from the dynamics of shared and projected emotions between leaders and followers, managers and subordinates, and among workers. The author suggests that these complementary unconscious feelings anchor the definition of organizational membership in interpersonal relationships at work. The result is, what he calls, the emotionally grounded structure of organizations--the organizational identity. What distinguishes this book from other psychodynamic approaches to organizations are the following: (1) an up-to-date synthesis of object relations, self psychology, and interpersonal psychoanalysis based primarily but not exclusively on the work of Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Heinz Kohut and Harry Stack Sullivan; (2) a discussion of psychoanalytic organization theory and the application of psychodynamic concepts in organizational behavior; (3) a psychodynamic critique of organizational culture, the structure of values and rituals at work, and the introduction of the structure of organizational emotions, what the author calls organizational identity; (4) a psychoanalytic explanation and typology of regressive behavior in work groups; (5) a discussion and illustration of the role of language and communication in organizational consulting; and (6) a variety of case studies drawn from over ten years of organizational research and consulting. Finally, this book offers the organizational theorist and consultant a variety of psychodynamic tools to apply in understanding and positively changing organizations. This book will be of interest to organizational development consultants, human resource professionals, organizational theorists and researchers, organizational psychologists and psychodynamically oriented social and behavioral scientists, and psychologically informed managers and executives.

An Introduction to Systems Psychodynamics

Author : David Lawlor
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000486958
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to Systems Psychodynamics written by David Lawlor and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2021-12-13 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book provides an introduction to systems psychodynamic theory and its application to organisational consultancy, research and training, outlining systems dynamics methods and their historical and theoretical developments. Systems Psychodynamics is an emerging field of social science, the boundaries of which are continually being refined and re-defined. The ‘systems’ designation refers to open systems concepts that provide the framing perspective for understanding the structural aspects of organisational systems. These include its design, division of labour, levels of authority, and reporting relationships; the nature of work tasks, processes and activities; its mission and primary task; and the nature and patterning of the organisation’s task and sentient boundaries and the transactions across them. This book presents a critical appraisal of the systems psychodynamics paradigm and its application to present-day social and organisational difficulties, showing how a holistic approach to organisational and social problems can offer a fresh perspective on difficult issues. Bringing together the theory and practice of systems psychodynamics for the first time, this book provides an examination of the systems psychodynamics paradigm in action. This book gives an accessible and thorough guide to understanding and using systems psychodynamic ideas for analysts, managers, policy makers, consultants and researchers in a wide range of professional and clinical settings.

Covert Processes at Work

Author : Robert J. Marshak
Publisher : Berrett-Koehler Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1576757951
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book Covert Processes at Work written by Robert J. Marshak and published by Berrett-Koehler Publishers. This book was released on 2006-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Outlines methodologies for diagnosing and dealing with the "hidden" or covert factors that can subtly sabotage even the most meticulously planned change processes.

An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Workplace Bullying

Author : Sheila White
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429910738
Total Pages : 333 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book An Introduction to the Psychodynamics of Workplace Bullying written by Sheila White and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-01 with total page 333 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book gives in-depth insights into the core issues of workplace bullying from the perspectives of the individuals involved, their interpersonal relationships, the group dynamics and organisational contexts. Workplace bullying is costly: increasingly petty conflicts are being registered as formal complaints and, in no time, legalities take over and costs spiral out of control. Preventive actions and interventions need to be based on a sound knowledge of the deeper issues which foster bullying scenarios. This book gets to the roots of why and how bullying occurs. Four main chapters are devoted to individuals, interpersonal relationships, group dynamics, and organisational contexts. The fifth chapter is a case study of the 'turn round' of a workplace in which bullying was rife. There are three recurring themes: recognition, loss, and space. New ways of conceptualising bullying are presented from drawing on the literature on the subject, as well as a range of psychodynamics theories. Bullying is described as a perverse and pernicious form of projective identification, occurring around organisational vacuums and structural fractures.

Discovering Organizational Identity

Author : Michael A. Diamond
Publisher : University of Missouri Press
ISBN 13 : 0826273734
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Discovering Organizational Identity written by Michael A. Diamond and published by University of Missouri Press. This book was released on 2016-12-31 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book focuses on the theory and practice of understanding and transforming organizations with the goal to discover common ground between groups and individuals. Diamond presents a framework of reflective practice for organizational researchers, scholar-practitioner consultants, executives, managers, and workers in order to promote a more satisfying and humane work-life.

The Reforming Organization

Author : Nils Brunsson
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780815369516
Total Pages : 222 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (695 download)

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Download or read book The Reforming Organization written by Nils Brunsson and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-29 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 10 The implicit effects of reform -- Decentralization -- The power shift -- Legitimation -- Education and ideologies -- Reforms as roller-coasters -- Reforms as symbolic accomplishments -- 11 Reform as a learning process -- Accounting reform -- Reform as learning -- Closed or open learning processes? -- 12 Reform and power -- Reformers as agents -- Reform as opinion-building -- References -- Index