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Record Nr.

UNINA9910455492703321

Autore

Stein Howard F

Titolo

Nothing personal, just business [[electronic resource] ] : a guided journey into organizational darkness / / Howard F. Stein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Westport, CT, : Quorum Books, 2001

ISBN

1-280-91398-3

9786610913985

0-313-00255-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (191 p.)

Disciplina

158.7

Soggetti

Organizational behavior - United States

Violence in the workplace - United States

Job stress - United States

Work environment - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.