This volume is an introductory text to the individual and organizational dynamics by an author with extensive experience in the field. It examines the unconscious processes of human behavior that affect all organizations and institutions. This volume endeavors to provide an explanation for these unconscious processes, in language as simple as that used in other traditional organizational behavior books and in the context of known and recognized conscious behavior. This often-neglected topic is examined with the help of various illuminating case studies. Using a systems psychodynamic...

Learning from experience is the theme of this thought-provoking and challenging volume edited by Laurence J. Gould, Lionel F. Stapley and Mark Stein. They have produced an authoritative sourcebook on this major strand of Group Relations Theory, which was developed jointly from psychoanalytic and open systems theories, including those of Bion, Klein and Freud.
The papers in this book address the broad issues of authority, leadership and organizational culture, whilst concentrating on other issues in-depth, such as inter-group conflict, and gender and race relations in the workplace....

Based on work in the environment of professional football, this book explores the effect emotions have on team members.This leads to a different way of viewing leadership, one which has at its core the need for a high degree of emotional awareness.

This text argues that current theories about organizational culture fail because they concentrate on simple surface issues. Taking concepts from psychoanalysis, the author uses them to explain collective feelings of members of organizations and to emphasize the role of the unconscious processes.