02972oam 2200757 a 450 991095492380332120200520144314.097984006922779786610913985978128091398312809139839780313002557031300255X10.5040/9798400692277(CKB)111004365796898(EBL)283704(OCoLC)55141640(SSID)ssj0000212456(PQKBManifestationID)11201672(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000212456(PQKBWorkID)10138074(PQKB)11085592(Au-PeEL)EBL283704(CaPaEBR)ebr10005619(OCoLC)847359035(MiAaPQ)EBC283704(OCoLC)1435636034(DLC)BP9798400692277BC(Perlego)4202256(EXLCZ)9911100436579689820001023e20012024 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrNothing personal, just business a guided journey into organizational darkness /Howard F. Stein1st ed.Westport, Conn. :Praeger,2001.London :Bloomsbury Publishing,20241 online resource (191 p.)Description based upon print version of record.9780585384696 058538469X 9781567204421 1567204422 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 F119045DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910954923803321Nothing personal, just business4341657UNINA