Exploring Individual and Organizational Boundaries: A Tavistock Open Systems Approach

ISBN-13: 9780367105082 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 278 str.

Lawrence, W. Gordon

Opis

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.

Spis treści

Editorial Foreword to the Series , Preface , Foreword to this edition , Introductory Essay: Exploring Boundaries , Boundary Management in Psychological Work with Groups , The A. K. Rice Group Relations Conferences as a Reflection of Society , The Pseudomutual Small Group or Institution , Another Source of Conservatism in Groups , Manifestations of Transference in Small Training Groups , A Manager’s View of the Institutional Event , Men and Women at Work: A Group Relations Conference on Person and Role , By Women, for Women: A Group Relations Conference , A Model for Distinguishing Supportive from Insight-oriented Psychotherapy Groups , The Adolescent, the Family, and the Group: Boundary Considerations , Learning and the Group Experience , Darkness , The Psychology of Innovation in an Industrial Setting , Open Systems Revisited: A Proposition about Development and Change , A Concept for Today: The Management of Oneself in Role

O autorze

W Gordon Lawrence