Nothing personal, just business [electronic resource] : a guided journey into organizational darkness / Howard F. Stein.

Author/Creator:

Stein, Howard F.

Publication:

Westport, CT : Quorum Books, 2001.

Format/Description:

Book
1 online resource (191 p.)

Subjects:

Organizational behavior -- United States.
Violence in the workplace -- United States.
Job stress -- United States.
Work environment -- United States.

Form/Genre:

Electronic books.

Language:

English

Summary:

Through vignettes and case studies, this work demonstrates how brutal business practices have become. It shows the importance of psychodynamic mechanisms (especially counter-transference) in understanding and healing dysfunctional business, medical, and educational organizations.

Contents:

Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments and Roadmap for This Book; 1 Introduction Don't Take It Personally It's Just Business; 2 Countertransference as Tool in Organizational Theory: The Use of Self to Understand Workplace Violence; 3 Downsizing, Managed Care, and the Potlatching; 4 The Holocaust as Trope for Managed Social Change; 5 Ordinary Brutality at Work; 6 "How Long Can We Circle the Wagons?" Sense of Doom at Work; 7 Rupture and Reconciliation A Case Study; Conclusions; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-280-91398-3
9786610913985
0-313-00255-X

OCLC:

55141640

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