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Nothing personal, just business : a guided journey into organizational darkness / Howard F. Stein.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (xxv, 166 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 058538469X
  • 9780585384696
  • 031300255X
  • 9780313002557
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Nothing personal, just business.DDC classification:
  • 158.7 21
LOC classification:
  • HD58.7 .S744 2001eb
Other classification:
  • 85.52
Online resources:
Contents:
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.
Summary: 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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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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.

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