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Record Nr.

UNINA9910825461403321

Titolo

The systems psychodynamics of organizations : integrating the group relations approach,  psychoanalytic, and open systems perspectives : contributions in honor of Eric J. Miller / / edited by Laurence J. Gould, Lionel F. Stapley, Mark Stein

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Karnac Press, 2006, c2001

ISBN

0-429-92238-8

0-429-90815-6

0-429-48338-4

1-283-06912-1

9786613069122

1-84940-517-4

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (240 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MillerE. J (Eric John)

GouldLaurence J

StapleyLionel

SteinMark

Disciplina

158.7

Soggetti

Organizational change

Group decision making

Organization

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

COVER; Editors and Contibutors; Contents; Introduction; 1. Applying Learning from Experience: The Intersection of Psychoanalysis and Organizational Role Consultation; 2. The Exercise of Authority in a Dependent Context; 3. An Organization Looks at Itself: Psychoanalytic and Group Relations Perspectives on Facilitating Organizational Transition; 4. Complexity at the ""Edge"" of the Basic-Assumption Group; 5. Enemies Within and Without: Paranoia and Regression in Groups and Organizations; 6. Dilemmas of Organizational Change: A Systems Psychodynamic Perspective

7. A Large-System Intervention: The Influence of Organisational



Culture8. Institutional Learning as Chief Executive; 9. The Leader the Unconscious, and the Management of the Organisation; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.