Nothing personal, just business : a guided journey into organizational darkness /
Stein, Howard F.
Nothing personal, just business : a guided journey into organizational darkness / Howard F. Stein. - Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2001. - 1 online resource (xxv, 166 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: "Don't take it personally, it's just business" -- Countertransference as tool in organizational theory: the "use" of self to understand workplace violence -- Downsizing, managed care, and the potlatching of the workplace: a study in cultural brutality and its mystification -- The Holocaust as trope for managed social change -- Ordinary brutality at work -- "How long can we circle the wagons?": a study in the sense of doom at work -- Rupture and reconciliation: a case study.
Through vignettes and case studies, this work demonstrates how brutal business practices have become. It shows the importance of psychodynamic mechanisms (especially counter-transference) in understanding and healing dysfunctional business, medical, and educational organizations.
058538469X (electronic bk.) 9780585384696 (electronic bk.) 031300255X (electronic bk.) 9780313002557 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper)
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Organizational behavior--United States.
Violence in the workplace--United States.
Job stress--United States.
Work environment--United States.
Comportement organisationnel--États-Unis.
Violence en milieu de travail--États-Unis.
Stress dû au travail--États-Unis.
PSYCHOLOGY--Industrial & Organizational Psychology.
Job stress.
Organizational behavior.
Violence in the workplace.
Work environment.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HD58.7 / .S744 2001eb
158.7
Nothing personal, just business : a guided journey into organizational darkness / Howard F. Stein. - Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2001. - 1 online resource (xxv, 166 pages)
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: "Don't take it personally, it's just business" -- Countertransference as tool in organizational theory: the "use" of self to understand workplace violence -- Downsizing, managed care, and the potlatching of the workplace: a study in cultural brutality and its mystification -- The Holocaust as trope for managed social change -- Ordinary brutality at work -- "How long can we circle the wagons?": a study in the sense of doom at work -- Rupture and reconciliation: a case study.
Through vignettes and case studies, this work demonstrates how brutal business practices have become. It shows the importance of psychodynamic mechanisms (especially counter-transference) in understanding and healing dysfunctional business, medical, and educational organizations.
058538469X (electronic bk.) 9780585384696 (electronic bk.) 031300255X (electronic bk.) 9780313002557 (electronic bk.) (alk. paper)
Greenwood eBooks http://www.ebooks.greenwood.com/about.asp
Organizational behavior--United States.
Violence in the workplace--United States.
Job stress--United States.
Work environment--United States.
Comportement organisationnel--États-Unis.
Violence en milieu de travail--États-Unis.
Stress dû au travail--États-Unis.
PSYCHOLOGY--Industrial & Organizational Psychology.
Job stress.
Organizational behavior.
Violence in the workplace.
Work environment.
United States.
Electronic books.
Electronic books.
HD58.7 / .S744 2001eb
158.7