Is your organization obsessive-compulsive or passive-aggressive? Corporate neurosis expert Manfred Kets de Vries analyzes dysfunctional organizational behavior in terms of accepted psychoanalytic types and arrives at some genuine insights into why some companies are healthier than others.
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"Excellent and well-written.... The authors analyze dysfunctional organizational behavior in terms of accepted psychoanalytic types. The analogy between personal and organizational malfunction is clearly drawn and offers genuine insights into understanding nonfunctional organizational behavior.", Choice
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"An excellent and well-written book....The authors analyze dysfunctional organizational behavior in terms of accepted psychoanalytic types. The analogy between personal and organizational malfunction is clearly drawn and offers genuine insights into understanding nonfunctional organizational behavior."--Choice
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They Investigate Psychological Barriers To Growth And Change --- And Detail Ways Of Overcoming Them,
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This review is from: The Neurotic Organization: Diagnosing and Changing Counterproductive Styles of Management (J-B US non-Franchise Leadership) (Hardcover)
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Manfred F. R. Kets De Vries is professor of organizational behavior and management policy, Faculty of Management, McGill University, and is currently visiting professor in social psychology of management, Harvard University Graduate School of Business Administration. He is also a practicing psychoanalyst. Danny Miller is associate professor of management policy and organization theory, Faculty of Management, McGill University, and at Ecole des Hautes Etudes Commerciales, Montreal." "..... They also explain ways of dealing with psychological conflicts and working for positive change within organizations. Offering advice to executives at various stages in their careers, THEY INVESTIGATE PSYCHOLOGICAL BARRIERS TO GROWTH AND CHANGE---AND DETAIL WAYS OF OVERCOMING THEM." [from the back flap]
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Things began to change radically at Stevens Corporation after it was acquired by Pyrax International. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
depressive firm, paranoid firm, compulsive firm, dramatic firm, transferential patterns, utopian culture, intrapsychic fantasies, organizational satisfaction, neurotic styles, transference patterns, career life cycle, group fantasies, operating matters, organizational dysfunction, shared fantasies, dependency group Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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Things began to change radically at Stevens Corporation after it was acquired by Pyrax International. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
depressive firm, paranoid firm, compulsive firm, dramatic firm, transferential patterns, utopian culture, intrapsychic fantasies, organizational satisfaction, neurotic styles, transference patterns, career life cycle, group fantasies, operating matters, organizational dysfunction, shared fantasies, dependency group Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- Organizations: A Quantum View by Danny Miller in Front Matter, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Achieving Society by David C. McClelland in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- The Psychoanalytic Theory of Neurosis by Otto Fenichel in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Experiences in Groups: and Other Papers by W.R. Bion in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Irrational Executive: Psychoanalytic Explorations in Management by M. F. R. Kets De Vries in Front Matter, and Back Matter
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- The Leader on the Couch: A Clinical Approach to Changing People & Organisations by Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries on 7 pages
- Administrative Reform Comes to Age (Studies in Organization: No 28) by Gerald E. Caiden on page 129, page 169, and Back Matter
- BCA: Business Case Analysis by James W. Brannock on page 128, page 132, and Back Matter
- The Addictive Organization: Why We Overwork, Cover Up, Pick Up the Pieces, Please the Boss, and Perpetuate S by Anne Wilson Schaef on page 27, page 81, and Back Matter
- Refounding the Church: Dissent for Leadership by Gerald A. Arbuckle on page 63, page 157, and Back Matter
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