Organizations on the Couch: Clinical Perspectives on Organizational Behavior and Change
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PrefaneThe Authors
Introduction: Exploding the Myth That Organizations and Executives Are Rational
Part One: New Perspectives on Organizations
1. Using Psychoanalytic Frameworks for Organizational Analysis
2. Diagnosing Organizatons Systematically
3. Exploring the Dynamics of Leadership
Part Two: The Leadership Conundrum
4. Leading and Managing: Understanding the Difference
5. On Becoming a CEO: Tranference and the Addicitveness of Power
6. Magnificent Obsession: The Impact of Unconscious Processes on Strategy Formation
Part Three: Change Processes in Work Groups
7. Managing Boundaries in Organizations
8. Stresses of Group Membership: Balancng the Needs for IndepAndence and Belonging
9. Dealing with the Anxiety of Working: Social Defences as Coping Strategy
Part Four: The Question of Organizational Character
10. Leadership Styles and Organizational Cultures: The Shaping of Neurotic Organizations
11. How Bureaucracy Discourages Responsibility
12. Organizational Decay and Loss of Reality
Part Five: Organizational Consultation and Change
13. Understanding the Dynamics Between Consulting and Client Systems
14. The Psychodynamics of Upheaval: Intervening in Merger and Acquisition Transitions
15. Changing Organizations and Individuals: Psychoanalytic Insights for Improving Organizational Health
16. Struggling with the Demon: Confronting the Irrationality of Organizations and Executives
Index
Introduction: Exploding the Myth That Organizations and Executives Are Rational
Part One: New Perspectives on Organizations
1. Using Psychoanalytic Frameworks for Organizational Analysis
2. Diagnosing Organizatons Systematically
3. Exploring the Dynamics of Leadership
Part Two: The Leadership Conundrum
4. Leading and Managing: Understanding the Difference
5. On Becoming a CEO: Tranference and the Addicitveness of Power
6. Magnificent Obsession: The Impact of Unconscious Processes on Strategy Formation
Part Three: Change Processes in Work Groups
7. Managing Boundaries in Organizations
8. Stresses of Group Membership: Balancng the Needs for IndepAndence and Belonging
9. Dealing with the Anxiety of Working: Social Defences as Coping Strategy
Part Four: The Question of Organizational Character
10. Leadership Styles and Organizational Cultures: The Shaping of Neurotic Organizations
11. How Bureaucracy Discourages Responsibility
12. Organizational Decay and Loss of Reality
Part Five: Organizational Consultation and Change
13. Understanding the Dynamics Between Consulting and Client Systems
14. The Psychodynamics of Upheaval: Intervening in Merger and Acquisition Transitions
15. Changing Organizations and Individuals: Psychoanalytic Insights for Improving Organizational Health
16. Struggling with the Demon: Confronting the Irrationality of Organizations and Executives
Index
