This book brings together a timely collection of new and important essays by an international group of well-known authors. It provides reflections and insights on the past, present, and future of the 'group relations' approach, as well as its impact on management, organizations, and institutions.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Introduction
- Learning, Managing, and Organizing: The continuing contribution of group relations to management and organization
- Theorising Practice in Group Relations
- Grouping
- A Mind for Business
- Systems Psychodynamics in Service of Political Organizational Change
- A Political Visionary in Mid-Life: Notes on leadership and the life cycle
- Managing the Unconscious at Work
- Dependency, Alienation, or Partnership? The changing relatedness of the individual to the enterprise
- A Fresh Look at Authority and Organization: Towards a spiritual approach to managing illusion
- On Being Frozen in Time
- Practising Theory in Group Relations
- The Recovery of Meaning
- From Envy to Desire: Witnessing the transformation
- In the Nick of Time: Reactivating an organization through leader-initiated interactions with members of staff
- Mental Health Under Fire: Organizational intervention in a wounded service
- The Inner Drama of Role Taking in an Organization
- Isolation, Autonomy, and Interdependence in Organizational Life
- Team as a Sponge: How the nature of the task affects the behaviour and mental life of a team
- After the Conference is Over
- Bibliography
