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The dysfunctional workplace : theory, stories, and practice / Seth Allcorn and Howard F. Stein.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Columbia : University of Missouri Press, [2015]Copyright date: ©2015Description: 1 online resource (xvii, 226 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780826273529
  • 0826273521
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Dysfunctional workplace.DDC classification:
  • 616.8917 23
LOC classification:
  • HD58.7 .A454 2015eb
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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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.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 215-218) and index.

English.

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