02644nam 22006254a 450 991077860410332120230607224446.01-280-91398-397866109139850-313-00255-X(CKB)111004365796898(EBL)283704(OCoLC)55141640(SSID)ssj0000212456(PQKBManifestationID)11201672(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212456(PQKBWorkID)10138074(PQKB)11085592(MiAaPQ)EBC283704(Au-PeEL)EBL283704(CaPaEBR)ebr10005619(OCoLC)847359035(EXLCZ)9911100436579689820001023d2001 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNothing personal, just business[electronic resource] a guided journey into organizational darkness /Howard F. SteinWestport, CT Quorum Books20011 online resource (191 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-585-38469-X 1-56720-442-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.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; IndexThrough 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.Organizational behaviorUnited StatesViolence in the workplaceUnited StatesJob stressUnited StatesWork environmentUnited StatesOrganizational behaviorViolence in the workplaceJob stressWork environment158.7Stein Howard F119045MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910778604103321Nothing personal, just business3692465UNINA