Rethinking Coaching: Critical Theory and the Economic Crisis

ISBN-13: 9781349316519 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 202 str.

Angélique du Toit

Opis

Coaching is being proposed as the best method to encourage a change in the ideologies that have brought about the credit crunch. The authors' concern is to show how coaching can widen its intellectual range to become a progressively more effective technique within organizational life.

Spis treści

PART I: INTRODUCTION Rethinking Coaching PART II: COACHING Coaching as Theory and Practice Who Benefits from Coaching?: Case Studies The Limitations of Coaching PART III: THEORY The Rise of Critical Theory Scepticism in Public Life PART IV: THEORY INTO COACHING The Market Paradigm: What Went Wrong? A New Dawn: Applying Critical Theory to Coaching Coaching and the Whistleblowing Dilemma Conclusion: Radical Coaching and Business as Usual

O autorze

ANGÉLIQUE DU TOIT is a Lead Academic in Coaching and an international Executive Coach at Board Level in both the public and private sectors. She is the Managing Editor for the International Journal of Mentoring and Coaching and on the Advisory Board of the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMMC, UK).

STUART SIM is retired Professor in Critical Theory, University of Sunderland, UK, and now Visiting Professor at Northumbria University. He has published widely in the field of critical theory and philosophy, and is the author of 26 books, including most recently The End of Modernity.