Coaching in Depth: The Organizational Role Analysis Approach

by Susan Long (Editor), John Newton (Editor), Burkard Sievers (Editor)

Overview

Coaching In Depth introduces the reader to the management consultancy technique of Organizational Role Analysis (ORA); a technique with the immensely practical purpose of helping managers to stay "in role and on task". The ORA method is grounded in a process of consultation that derives from the conjunction of open systems theory and psychodynamic understandings of human behaviour. It enables the collaborative resolution of the mental and emotional tensions represented in the client's work role as he/she strives to manage the dynamics between their organization-in-the-mind and the organization-in-reality.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781855753280
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/01/2006
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	214
Product dimensions:	5.75(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

John Newton is Associate Professor of Organization Dynamics at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Melbourne, Australia, where he is the founding director of graduate programs in Organization Dynamics. A member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, his work as an educator, consultant and action researcher is characterised by his interest in learning from experience.

Susan Long is Professor of Creative and Sustainable Organizations at Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology University, Australia. She is editor of Socio-Analysis and a Board member and past President of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.

Burkard Sievers is Professor of Organization Development, Bergische Universität Wuppertal; Co-editor Freie Assoziation; President-Elect (2005-6), International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO).

Table of Contents

Introduction , Organizational Role Analysis , Organizational Role Analysis: managing strategic change in business settings , Organizational Role Analysis: the birth and growth of ideas , Organizational Role Analysis at the Grubb Institute of Behavioural Studies: origins and development , Organizational Role Analysis , Organizational Role Analysis and consultation: the organization as inner object 1 , Organizational Role Analysis: using Bion’s binocular vision , Role dialogue , Organizational Role Analysis by telephone: the client I met only once , Drawing from role biography in Organizational Role Analysis , Coaching senior executives: personal/work conflicts, mortality, and legacy , Organizational Role Analysis in management education , Concluding comments. Organizational Role Analysis: from here to where?