The dysfunctional workplace : theory, stories, and practice /
Allcorn, Seth,
The dysfunctional workplace : theory, stories, and practice / Seth Allcorn and Howard F. Stein. - 1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.
Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- part one. Theory -- 1. Stories from the workplace : an introduction -- 2. Why use a psychpoanalytic approach to understand organizations? -- 3 Psychoanalytic perspectives and the workplace -- part two. Stories and analysis -- 4. Destructive leaders and organizational darkness -- 5. Projection and organizational crazy making -- 6. Organizational toxicity -- 7. The geography of organizational darkness -- 8. The stories, their meaning, and understanding workplace complexity -- 9. Implications for theory and research.
This book explores an aspect of organizational life that is at times difficult to acknowledge and often painful to recall. Stories invite reflection and the development of greater understanding of organizational dynamics. This fresh scholarship provides a theoretical framework for discussion. Throughout this book, Allcorn and Stein utilize a psychoanalytically informed perspective to help readers understand why a leader, colleague or friend behaves in ways that are destructive of others and the organization and provides a basis for organizations to survive and thrive in a dysfunctional workplace.
English.
9780826273529 0826273521
Management.
Organizational effectiveness.
Communication in management.
Work environment--Psychological aspects.
Psychoanalysis.
Corporate culture.
Psychology, Industrial.
Organizational behavior.
Organizational Culture
Psychology, Industrial
Gestion.
Efficacité organisationnelle.
Communication en gestion.
Psychanalyse.
Culture organisationnelle.
Psychologie du travail.
Comportement organisationnel.
management.
psychoanalysis.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--General.
MEDICAL--Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL--Diseases.
MEDICAL--Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL--Internal Medicine.
Corporate culture
Organizational behavior
Psychoanalysis
Psychology, Industrial
Communication in management
Management
Organizational effectiveness
Work environment--Psychological aspects
HD58.7 / .A454 2015eb
616.8917
The dysfunctional workplace : theory, stories, and practice / Seth Allcorn and Howard F. Stein. - 1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages) : illustrations
Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.
Foreword -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- part one. Theory -- 1. Stories from the workplace : an introduction -- 2. Why use a psychpoanalytic approach to understand organizations? -- 3 Psychoanalytic perspectives and the workplace -- part two. Stories and analysis -- 4. Destructive leaders and organizational darkness -- 5. Projection and organizational crazy making -- 6. Organizational toxicity -- 7. The geography of organizational darkness -- 8. The stories, their meaning, and understanding workplace complexity -- 9. Implications for theory and research.
This book explores an aspect of organizational life that is at times difficult to acknowledge and often painful to recall. Stories invite reflection and the development of greater understanding of organizational dynamics. This fresh scholarship provides a theoretical framework for discussion. Throughout this book, Allcorn and Stein utilize a psychoanalytically informed perspective to help readers understand why a leader, colleague or friend behaves in ways that are destructive of others and the organization and provides a basis for organizations to survive and thrive in a dysfunctional workplace.
English.
9780826273529 0826273521
Management.
Organizational effectiveness.
Communication in management.
Work environment--Psychological aspects.
Psychoanalysis.
Corporate culture.
Psychology, Industrial.
Organizational behavior.
Organizational Culture
Psychology, Industrial
Gestion.
Efficacité organisationnelle.
Communication en gestion.
Psychanalyse.
Culture organisationnelle.
Psychologie du travail.
Comportement organisationnel.
management.
psychoanalysis.
HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--General.
MEDICAL--Clinical Medicine.
MEDICAL--Diseases.
MEDICAL--Evidence-Based Medicine.
MEDICAL--Internal Medicine.
Corporate culture
Organizational behavior
Psychoanalysis
Psychology, Industrial
Communication in management
Management
Organizational effectiveness
Work environment--Psychological aspects
HD58.7 / .A454 2015eb
616.8917