Transforming Experience in Organisations: A Framework for Organisational Research and Consultancy

ISBN-13: 9781782203483 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 250 str.

Susan Long

Opis

This book explores a theoretical model - the Transforming Experience Framework (TEF) - used to understand the complexities and ambiguities of experience within organizational life. The TEF explores how people can take authentic action through taking up roles. The model is initially presented together with an understanding of the nature of unconscious dynamics and their disturbing and creative potentials. The various chapters explore situations, dilemmas and case studies in organizations through expanding on different aspects of the Framework.

The intention of bringing this collection together is to demonstrate how the model can be used in organizational analysis, research and consulting. The chapters have been written by practitioners and by staff and students of programs teaching in light of this framework and using depth psychology and socioanalytic approaches. The framework has been gradually developed over many years with evolving versions being tried and tested in organizational research and consulting but has not been comprehensively described previously. The framework is in constant evolution and should be regarded as a living model, responsive to new ways of thinking and to changes in organizational experiences and contexts.

Spis treści

Preface -- Introduction -- The transforming experience framework -- Background to the TEF -- The transforming experience framework and unconscious processes: a brief journey through the history of the concept of the unconscious as applied to person, system, and context with an exploratory hypothesis of unconscious as source -- Reframing reality in human experience: the relevance of the Grubb Institute’s contributions as a Christian foundation to group relations in the post-9/11 world -- Daring to desire: ambition, competition, and role transformation in “idealistic” organisations -- Working to improve institutional strength: the challenge of taking multiple roles in multiple systems -- Finding, making, and taking role: a case study from the complexity of inter-agency dynamics -- Transitioning tasks in an impossible context through use of drawings: a case example -- Connectedness with source: our collective reality -- The experience of connectedness with source: how does one’s understanding of connectedness with source contribute to thinking about accountability in role?

O autorze

Long, Susan