Exploring Individual and Organizational Boundaries - A Tavistock Open Systems Approach (Paperback)

One way of conceptualizing the relationship of individuals, through their roles, to their various groupings (such as families, communities, and business and industrial enterprises) is to consider their political relatedness. This includes an exploration of organizational structures, management, and issues of responsibility, leadership, and authority. Beyond this, the Tavistock open systems approach has always held that unconscious social processes are of central importance in such explorations. The methodology of the approach, therefore, is one that encourages people to consider the unconscious in relation to the political dimensions of institutions, This involves people in examine a range of boundaries, such as those between the inner and outer worlds of the individual, between person and role, and between enterprise and environment. Also involved are less obvious boundaries - or limits, or distinctions - such as those between certainty and uncertainty, order and chaos, innovation and destructiveness, reality and fantasy, and relationship and relatedness.

General

Imprint:	Karnac Books
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 1979
First published:	May 1979
Editors:	W.Gordon Lawrence
Dimensions:	231 x 149 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	278
ISBN-13:	978-1-85575-232-0
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Psychology > General Promotions
LSN:	1-85575-232-8
Barcode:	9781855752320

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