Exploring individual and organizational boundaries : a Tavistock open systems approach / / edited by W. Gordon Lawrence

• Pubblicazione: London ; ; New York, : Karnac, 1999, c1979
• Edizione: First edition.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (279 p.)
• Disciplina: 301.18/5; 301.185
• Soggetto topico: Group relations training; Small groups; Organizational behavior
• Altri autori: LawrenceW. Gordon
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographies and index.
• Nota di contenuto: COVER; Acknowledgements; Contributors; Contents; Editorial Foreword to the Series; Preface; Foreword to this edition; Chapter 1 Introductory Essay : Exploring Boundaries; Chapter 2 Boundary Management in Psychological Work with Groups; chapter 3 The A. K. Rice Group Relations Conferences as a Reflection of Society; Chapter 4 The Pseudomutual Small Group or Institution; Chapter 5 Another Source of Conservatism in Groups; Chapter 6 Manifestations of Transference in Small Training Groups; Chapter 7 A Manager's View of the Institutional Event ; Chapter 8 Men and Women at Work: A Group Relations Conference on Person and RoleChapter 9 By Women, for Women: A Group Relations Conference; Chapter 10 A Model for Distinguishing Supportive from Insight -oriented Psychotherapy Groups; Chapter 11 The Adolescent, the Family, and the Group : Boundary Considerations; Chapter 12 Learning and the Group Experience; Chapter 13 Darkness; Chapter 14 The Psychology of Innovation in an Industrial Setting; Chapter 15 Open Systems Revisited : A Proposition about Development and Change; Chapter 16 A Concept for Today: The Management of oneself in Role ; Index
• Sommario/riassunto: "One way of conceptualizing the relationship of individuals, through their roles, to their various groupings (such as families, communities, and business and industrial enterprises) is to consider their political relatedness. This includes an exploration of organizational structures, management, and issues of responsibility, leadership, and authority. Beyond this, the Tavistock open systems approach has always held that unconscious social processes are of central importance in such explorations. The methodology of the approach, therefore, is one that encourages people to consider the unconscious in relation to the political dimensions of institutions, This involves people in examine a range of boundaries, such as those between the inner and outer worlds of the individual, between person and role, and between enterprise and environment. Also involved are less obvious boundaries - or limits, or distinctions - such as those between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos, innovation and destructiveness, reality and fantasy, and relationship and relatedness.This volume, with a new foreword by Mannie Sher, describes the educational approach of the Tavistock open systems mode of group relations training for exploring and interpreting such boundary issues and problems. Examples of its application include family systems, rural developments, and organizational development. This volume should be of value to students and teachers of organizational analysis, training, and development, as well as to students and teachers of organizational psychology and sociology.This volume is one of a series being reissued by Karnac Books representing the theory and practice of organizational development used over many years at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations."--Provided by publisher.
• Titolo autorizzato: Exploring individual and organizational boundaries
• ISBN: 0-429-91345-1; 9780429896912; 0-429-47445-8; 1-283-06805-2; 9786613068057; 1-84940-011-3
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910818010403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II