This book introduces the reader to the management consultancy technique of Organizational Role Analysis--a technique with the immensely practical purpose of helping managers to stay -in role and on task.- As such, it provides a coherent, superbly illustrated framework for in-depth coaching. The ORA method is grounded in a process of consultation that derives from the conjunction of open systems theory, and psychodynamic understandings of human behavior. It enables the collaborative resolution of the mental and emotional tensions represented in the client's work role as he/she strives to...

This book samples the groundbreaking work that has been developed over the last 25 years by psychoanalysts, writers and practitioners associated with the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Studies of Organizations (ISPSO).

What characterizes this collection of original papers is an attempt to look at organizations, groups, teams and organizational role holders using psychoanalytic, systemic and psychodynamic perspectives that collectively eschew superficial, linear, prescriptive and mechanistic views of both the system and the individual within.
These papers,...

The current global financial crisis has raised awareness of the impact the world of finance has on the economy and the future of democracy. Following the crisis, this book aims at a deep understanding of the human psycho-social dynamics beneath the surface of the financial industry, its markets and institutions. It seeks to understand why the seemingly rational world of economic behavior, with its calculated models and predictions, at times goes horribly wrong. This book uses the discipline of socio-analysis to explore the meaning of money, markets and the broad financial world that so...

Obgleich dem Geheimnis und-der Geheimhaltung sowohl fur den Bereich sozialen All tagsverhaltens als auch. in Organisationen und gesellschaftlichen Teilbereichen wie et wa dem politischen oder dem Wirtschaftssystem eine wichtige Bedeutung zukommt, und Geheimhaltungsinteressen nicht gerade selten sind, wird dieses Thema in der neue ren Soziologie nur sporadisch behandelt. Dass Geheimhaltungsphanomenen grundsatz lich eine Relevanz fur soziales Verhalten zukommt, gehort zwar zumindest seit den Arbeiten von Erving Goffman zu den soziologischen Allgemeinplatzen; ein genuin so ziologisches Interesse...