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The Psychodynamics of Toxic Organizations - Applied Poems, Stories and Analysis (Hardcover) Loot Price: R3,894
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The Psychodynamics of Toxic Organizations - Applied Poems, Stories and Analysis (Hardcover): Seth Allcorn, Howard Stein

The Psychodynamics of Toxic Organizations - Applied Poems, Stories and Analysis (Hardcover)

Seth Allcorn, Howard Stein

Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society

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Understanding experience at work, especially in toxic organizations, is a multidimensional undertaking that must include all senses. The use of applied poetry has its primary value as an evocative approach to sensing, knowing, and understanding workplace experience. Poetry at its best condenses into relatively few words, metaphors, and images what conventional social science narratives would take much longer to articulate. Where poetry often hints and alludes, narrative seeks to spell out, expound, and complete. Where poetry leaves much mental space for the listener or reader to fill in with one's imagination, narrative fills in the spaces with rich detail. Applied poetry and its contextual stories offer a way of accessing workplace experience that is unique and valuable in terms of understanding lives at work. The use of complementary psychodynamic theories, like all theories, is a way of trying to account for what we have found and experienced and in particular why it happened. "Why," the authors suggest, is critical in terms of understanding the sensing, images, and metaphors evoked by the poetry and stories that may resonate with hearers and readers for reasons that are unconscious and are rooted in the past. These transferences that come forward from life experience into the present are the critical data we work with. These are the data of psychoanalysis. This book both widens and deepens the scope of organizational research offered by other researchers, theorists, and approaches to understanding, interpreting, explaining, leading, and consulting with workplace organizations. Its triangulating integration of applied poetry, experience and stories behind the poetry, and the three psychoanalytic models of explaining life in workplaces, is a new and distinct contribution to organizational research, leadership, and consulting efforts to help organization members solve real, underlying problems and not offer simplistic, formulaic solutions based solely on a study of the organization's surface. It will be of interest to researchers, academics, and students in the fields of organizational studies, leadership, and management.

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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Routledge Studies in Management, Organizations and Society
Release date: June 2020
First published: 2020
Authors: Seth Allcorn • Howard Stein
Dimensions: 229 x 152mm (L x W)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 282
ISBN-13: 978-0-367-44235-4
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Work & labour
Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory
Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management & management techniques > Organizational theory & behaviour
Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Management of specific areas > Personnel & human resources management
Books > Business & Economics > Business & management > Business mathematics & systems > General
LSN: 0-367-44235-3
Barcode: 9780367442354

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