The Perverse Organisation and its Deadly Sins

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Long, Susan

Mental Health

Routledge

Transforming Experience in Organisations: A Framework for Organisational Research and Consultancy

Business & Money

Industries

How can boards and members of boards reach their full potential? The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) has been at the forefront of thinking about organizations since its inception in 1947. Today, as then, the corporate world is undergoing increasing pressure to demonstrate a sustainable, generative and meaningful impact on society and employees whilst delivering improved services and products. These tensions and others are explored in this important new book, Dynamics at Boardroom Level: A Tavistock Primer for Leaders, Coaches and Consultants. 
In this book, the reader gets a useful framework of theory and practice that broadens vision and deepens thinking about what is happening in boardrooms. The book opens the door to the reader to a new world of board dynamics, edited by those who really understand the deeper workings of the complex human system and its work at board level. This edited volume brings together the insights and contemporary case studies from participants on the Tavistock Institute Dynamics @ Board Level programme that draws on the thinking of Tavistock scholars and practitioners and their work on the dynamics of task, role, authority and power. 
Edited by programme co-directors Dr Mannie Sher and Dr Leslie Brissett and their fellow Tavistock Associate Tazi Lorraine Smith, and with contributions from senior leadership practitioners and board evaluators from the government, international consultancy firms, FTSE 100 and global UN institutions, this book speaks directly to issues of our time. It represents essential reading for leaders of organizations and businesses, as well as leadership coaches and mental health professionals.

Dynamics at Boardroom Level

Management & Leadership

This text is concerned with the emergent properties of groups as systems and where those properties arise from, but where such properties of groups are equivalent neither to those of individuals nor their interactions. First an examination of group theory is presented. Particular emphasis is placed upon processes of group integration, identity and leadership, using the theories of Freud, Bion, Winnicott, and Lacan. Methodological problems of group research are examined, including problems of definition and measurement, eg transindividual processes are defined, described and appropriate measurement of methods are discussed. using the theories of Freud, Winnicot, and Lacan. Finally within a framework of systems, psychoanalytic and social psychological theories, five small groups are analyzed to determine their structural and dynamic properties. The book aims to extend and develop ideas on group dynamics within the psychoanalytic group psychology tradition. In so doing, the author emphasizes the role of unconscious processes in the nature of collective life. In addition to the more traditional analytic ideas about groups the book draws on the work of Lacan. It should be of interest to social psychologists, sociologists, organizational behaviour specialists.

A Structural Analysis of Small Groups

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

The must-have resource guidebook for those looking to learn the ancient Asian game of Go Beginning Go is a clear, concise and thorough introduction to the intricacies of Go that is perfect for first time players. The straightforward, easy-to-follow instructions and detailed examples make it simple to understand how to play. Players will learn the rules, how to keep score, as well as effective winning strategies and tactics to make the game more competitive and fun. By the time players finish the instructional sections, they'll have all the confidence, skill and techniques they'll need to enjoy playing this fascinating game. What's more, Go's unique handicapping system, which the book explains, allows even absolute beginners to play competitive games with experienced players.

Beginning Go: Making the Winning Move

Humor & Entertainment

Shotwell, Peter

Puzzles & Games

Tuttle+publishing

The Evolution of the Unconscious: Exploring Persons, Groups, Nature and Spirit

Psychology & Counseling

Socioanalysis is the study of groups, organisations, and society using a systems psychoanalytic framework: looking beneath the surface (and the obvious) to see the underlying dynamics and how these dynamics are interconnected. This book examines several of the methodologies used in socioanalytic work. Even though the beginnings of socioanalytic investigation lay in the mid-twentieth century, a broad look across several methodologies has not been done before, despite separate publications dealing with particular methods. In addition, several new methods have been developed in recent years, which the present work incorporates.Connecting all these methods is their aim of 'tapping into' the dynamic operation of what the author calls 'the associative unconscious' within and between social systems. The associative unconscious is the unconscious at a systemic level. Each of the methods discussed in this book accesses the associative unconscious in different ways. They help bring hidden dynamics to the surface for people to see how they influence, aid, or inhibit their activities.

Socioanalytic Methods: Discovering the Hidden in Organisations and Social Systems

This book demonstrates how the transforming experience framework (TEF) model can be used in organisational analysis, research, and consulting. It analyses the use of the TEF for examining both theoretical and practical issues in the field of socioanalysis and systems psychodynamics.

The Perverse Organisation and its Deadly Sins begins by examining the nature of perversity and its presence in corporate and organisational life. Then, four chapters examine the "corporate sins" of perverse pride, greed, envy and sloth, each taking case studies from major organisations suffering their effects. Finally, the book enquires into the nature of the consumer/provider pair as a centrepiece of the perverse cultural dynamics of current organisational life. The emphasis in the book is on perversity displayed by the organisation as such, rather than simply by its leaders, or other members, even though they may embody and manifest perverse primary symptoms to the extent that they at times engage in corrupt or criminal behaviour. What is explored is a group and organisation dynamic, more deeply embedded than conscious corruption. Within the perverse structure some roles become required to take up corrupt positions. They become part and parcel of the way things work. The person may condemn certain practices, but the role requires them. Tensions between person and role may mean that the person in role acts as they would not while in other roles. Such tensions may lead to the dynamics of perversity. This book is important reading for managers, consultants, and all who are interested in the dynamics propelling what seem to be the out-of-control dynamics within contemporary organisational life. It helps us understand how many people in positions of trust may end up abusing those positions. It looks at how we may be collectively perverse despite our individual attempts to be otherwise.

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The Perverse Organisation and its Deadly Sins

Transforming Experience in Organisations: A Framework for Organisational Research and Consultancy

Dynamics at Boardroom Level

A Structural Analysis of Small Groups

Beginning Go: Making the Winning Move

The Evolution of the Unconscious: Exploring Persons, Groups, Nature and Spirit

Socioanalytic Methods: Discovering the Hidden in Organisations and Social Systems

Transforming Experience in Organisations: A Framework for Organisational Research and Consultancy

The Perverse Organisation and its Deadly Sins

Beginning Go: Making the Winning Move