The Dysfunctional Workplace: Theory, Stories, and Practice

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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The Dysfunctional Workplace: Theory, Stories, and Practice

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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The Dysfunctional Workplace: Theory, Stories, and Practice

The Dysfunctional Workplace: Theory, Stories, and Practice

The Dysfunctional Workplace: Theory, Stories, and Practice

The Dysfunctional Workplace: Theory, Stories, and Practice

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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.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780826273529
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Publication date: 02/16/2016
Series: Advances in Organizational Psychodynamics , #1
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 244
File size: 653 KB

About the Author


Seth Allcorn is the former Vice President for Business and Finance at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. He has served as a financial and administrative Assistant Dean at the Texas Tech School of Medicine and Associate Dean for the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola–Chicago.


Howard F. Stein is Professor Emeritus of the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine, University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK, he taught from 1978-2012. Dr. Stein is also a Research Associate of the Center for the Study of Organizational Change at the University of Missouri.


Table of Contents


Contents


Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments


Part One. Theory


Chapter 1. Stories from the Workplace: An Introduction


Chapter 2. Why Use a Psychoanalytic Approach to Understand Organizations?


Chapter 3. Psychoanalytic Perspectives and the Workplace


Part Two. Stories and Analysis


Chapter 4. Destructive Leaders and Organizational Darkness


Chapter 5. Projection and Organizational Crazy Making


Chapter 6. Organizational Toxicity


Chapter 7. The Geography of Organizational Darkness


Part Three. Conclusions


Chapter 8. The Stories, Their Meaning, and Understanding Workplace Complexity


Chapter 9. Implications for Theory and Research


References


Index


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