This book offers a contemporary psychodynamic view of
organizational life. Michael Diamond stresses the unconscious
dimensions of hierarchic and other work relationships in
organizations. From these relationships, he argues, come not only
organizational cultures but also organizational identities. The
book transcends the common technical rational approach to
organizational behavior by isolating and then analyzing the
nonrational side of organizational experience. Diamond illustrates
how different characteristics of organizational life emerge from
the dynamics of shared and projected emotions between leaders and
followers, managers and subordinates, and among workers. The author
suggests that these complementary unconscious feelings anchor the
definition of organizational membership in interpersonal
relationships at work. The result is, what he calls, the
emotionally grounded structure of organizations--the organizational
identity.
What distinguishes this book from other psychodynamic approaches
to organizations are the following: (1) an up-to-date synthesis of
object relations, self psychology, and interpersonal psychoanalysis
based primarily but not exclusively on the work of Melanie Klein,
Donald Winnicott, Heinz Kohut and Harry Stack Sullivan; (2) a
discussion of psychoanalytic organization theory and the
application of psychodynamic concepts in organizational behavior;
(3) a psychodynamic critique of organizational culture, the
structure of values and rituals at work, and the introduction of
the structure of organizational emotions, what the author calls
organizational identity; (4) a psychoanalytic explanation and
typology of regressive behavior in work groups; (5) a discussion
and illustration of the role of language and communication in
organizational consulting; and (6) a variety of case studies drawn
from over ten years of organizational research and consulting.
Finally, this book offers the organizational theorist and
consultant a variety of psychodynamic tools to apply in
understanding and positively changing organizations. This book will
be of interest to organizational development consultants, human
resource professionals, organizational theorists and researchers,
organizational psychologists and psychodynamically oriented social
and behavioral scientists, and psychologically informed managers
and executives.
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