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Autore |
Stein Howard F |
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Titolo |
Nothing personal, just business [[electronic resource] ] : a guided journey into organizational darkness / / Howard F. Stein |
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Pubbl/distr/stampa |
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Westport, CT, : Quorum Books, 2001 |
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ISBN |
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1-280-91398-3 |
9786610913985 |
0-313-00255-X |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (191 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Organizational behavior - United States |
Violence in the workplace - United States |
Job stress - United States |
Work environment - United States |
Electronic books. |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments and Roadmap for This Book; 1 Introduction Don't Take It Personally It's Just Business; 2 Countertransference as Tool in Organizational Theory: The Use of Self to Understand Workplace Violence; 3 Downsizing, Managed Care, and the Potlatching; 4 The Holocaust as Trope for Managed Social Change; 5 Ordinary Brutality at Work; 6 "How Long Can We Circle the Wagons?" Sense of Doom at Work; 7 Rupture and Reconciliation A Case Study; Conclusions; Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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Through vignettes and case studies, this work demonstrates how brutal business practices have become. It shows the importance of psychodynamic mechanisms (especially counter-transference) in understanding and healing dysfunctional business, medical, and educational organizations. |
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