This book introduces the reader to the management consultancy technique of Organizational Role Analysis--a technique with the immensely practical purpose of helping managers to stay "in role and on task." As such, it provides a coherent, superbly illustrated framework for in-depth coaching. The ORA method is grounded in a process of consultation that derives from the conjunction of open systems theory, and psychodynamic understandings of human behavior. 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 the organization-in-the-mind and the organization-in-reality.While the method of Organizational Role Analysis presented in this book has been evolving for three decades, published accounts of the work have been sparse, spasmodic, and relatively obscure. This book brings together the work of experienced practitioners from around the globe who illuminate the guiding concepts with lively, practical examples that illustrate the variety of ways in which managers can receive coaching in-depth. These accounts are complemented by an extensive bibliography for further reading.Contributors: John Bazalgette, Ullrich Beumer, Hanna Biran, Irving Borwick, Jane Chapman, Laurence J. Gould, W. Gordon Lawrence, Susan Long, Rose Redding Mersky, John Newton, Bruce Reed, and Burkard Sievers

The current global financial crisis has raised awareness of the impact the world of finance has on the economy and the future of democracy. Following the crisis, this book aims at a deep understanding of the human psycho-social dynamics beneath the surface of the financial industry, its markets and institutions. It seeks to understand why the seemingly rational world of economic behavior, with its calculated models and predictions, at times goes horribly wrong.

This book uses the discipline of socio-analysis to explore the meaning of money, markets and the broad financial world that so strongly affects our daily lives. Socio-analysis contributes to an awareness and understanding of underlying unconscious desires, fantasies and illusions that bring about the irrational inflation of faith and trust in the world of money, finance and capital(ism). The insight that the financial crisis OCywas essentially psychological in originOCO (Robert Shiller) and that the world of finance is broadly shaped if not determined by irrational often unconscious factors is not yet broadly shared. This book appears to be one of the first, if not the first contribution that explicitly focuses on what is beneath the surface of money, finance and capital. It invites the reader to explore the financial world in depth.

The aim of this book is to provide businesses, organizational consultants, students, researchers and interested persons more broadly with a detailed exploration of the psycho-social dynamics of the financial industry as it exists currently within the capitalist system. The contributors to this book come from Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, The Netherlands, UK, and USA."

This book samples the groundbreaking work that has been developed over the last twenty-five years by psychoanalysts, writers and practitioners associated with the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Studies of Organizations (ISPSO). What characterises this collection of original papers is an attempt to look at organizations, groups, teams

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.

The current global financial crisis has raised awareness of the impact the world of finance has on the economy and the future of democracy. Following the crisis, this book aims at a deep understanding of the human psycho-social dynamics beneath the surface of the financial industry, its markets and institutions. It seeks to understand why the seemingly rational world of economic behavior, with its calculated models and predictions, at times goes horribly wrong. This book uses the discipline of socio-analysis to explore the meaning of money, markets and the broad financial world that so strongly affects our daily lives. Socio-analysis contributes to an awareness and understanding of underlying unconscious desires, fantasies and illusions that bring about the irrational inflation of faith and trust in the world of money, finance and capital(ism). The insight that the financial crisis 'was essentially psychological in origin' (Robert Shiller) and that the world of finance is broadly shaped if not determined by irrational often unconscious factors is not yet broadly shared. This book appears to be one of the first, if not the first contribution that explicitly focuses on what is beneath the surface of money, finance and capital. It invites the reader to explore the financial world in depth. The aim of this book is to provide businesses, organizational consultants, students, researchers and interested persons more broadly with a detailed exploration of the psycho-social dynamics of the financial industry as it exists currently within the capitalist system. The contributors to this book come from Australia, Denmark, France, Germany, Hungary, Sweden, The Netherlands, UK, and USA.

This book samples the groundbreaking work that has been developed over the last 25 years by psychoanalysts, writers and practitioners associated with the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Studies of Organizations (ISPSO).What characterizes this collection of original papers is an attempt to look at organizations, groups, teams and organizational role holders using psychoanalytic, systemic and psychodynamic perspectives that collectively eschew superficial, linear, prescriptive and mechanistic views of both the system and the individual within.These papers, delivered as presentations to the Society during the Annual Symposia of the ISPSO from its inception in 1983 to-date, collectively form an important commentary on the changing societal dynamics and current preoccupations facing the contemporary organizations, their leaders and their workforce. As such, these papers are representative of many that have contributed to and documented the development of the thought and praxis from a psychoanalytic perspective and systems thinking over the last quarter of century. While most of these papers have already been published elsewhere, the ISPSO as an organization wished to include them in this volume, recognizing their lasting influence and legacy as well as their ongoing impact upon the thinking and the practice of its membership and beyond.Contributors: Michael A. Diamond; James Krantz; Thomas N. Gilmore; Harold Bridger; Laurence J. Gould; Isabel Menzies Lyth; W. Gordon Lawrence; Howard F. Stein; Larry Hirschhorn; David Armstrong; Robert French; Peter Simpson; Charles Harvey; Burkard Sievers; Susan Long; Gilles Amado.

Obgleich dem Geheimnis und-der Geheimhaltung sowohl fur den Bereich sozialen All- tagsverhaltens als auch. in Organisationen und gesellschaftlichen Teilbereichen wie et- wa dem politischen oder dem Wirtschaftssystem eine wichtige Bedeutung zukommt, und Geheimhaltungsinteressen nicht gerade selten sind, wird dieses Thema in der neue- ren Soziologie nur sporadisch behandelt. Dass Geheimhaltungsphanomenen grundsatz- lich eine Relevanz fur soziales Verhalten zukommt, gehoert zwar zumindest seit den Arbeiten von Erving Goffman zu den soziologischen Allgemeinplatzen; ein genuin so- ziologisches Interesse an den Geheimhaltungsinteressen personaler und sozialer Sy- steme besteht jedoch kaum. Diese Diskrepanz zwischen sozialer und soziologischer Relevanz des Geheimnisses wird beispielsweise deutlich, wenn man den Umfang so- ziologischer Publikationen zu diesem Thema mit der Zahl deutscher juristischer Dis- sertationen vergleicht, die in den letzten Jahren zum Amts-, Berufs-, Post- oder Staats- geheimnis erschienen sind oder sie der Fulle dokumentarischer bzw. popularwissen- schaftlicher Arbeiten aus dem Bereich staatlicher Nachrichtendienste, industrieller Spionage sowie der Skandale in Politik, Wirtschaft oder Sport gegenuberstellt. Wahrend das Geheimnis vor allem in der alteren deutschen Soziologie eine gewisse Bedeutung gehabt hat und beispielsweise von Georg Simmel im Kontext seiner forma- len Soziologie oder von Wilhelm Stok innerhalb der Beziehungslehre Leopold von Wieses thematisiert wurde, liegen die wenigen neueren Arbeiten, die sich uberhaupt mit Geheimhaltungsphanomenen befassen, ausserdem eher am Rande der theoretischen Entwicklung der gegenwartigen Soziologie. Eine Durchsicht der wichtigsten vorliegenden Arbeiten macht deutlich, dass das Problem der Geheimhaltung bislang ausschliesslich interaktionistisch bzw. eher sozial- psychologisch angegangen wurde (I).