Organisational Psychology Books
Social Dreaming in the 21st Century: The World We Are Losing
We are running out of ideas in Western society. Faced with global warming, Third World devastation, nuclear proliferation and the threat posed by religious conflict, we need new ways of thinking.... (more)
Reflexive Inquiry: A Framework for Consultancy Practice
The impetus for this book came from an appreciation that reflexivity, for both consultant and client, is the core ingredient for facilitating the "changing organization". Central to this belief,... (more)
Coaching in Depth: The Organizational Role Analysis Approach
Coaching In Depth introduces the reader to the management consultancy technique of Organizational Role Analysis (ORA); a technique with the immensely practical purpose of helping managers to stay “in... (more)
Organisations, Anxiety and Defence: Towards a Psychoanalytic Social Psychology
Psychoanalysis has been applied to the understanding of social groups, organisations and cultures for a very long time, and there have been many different approaches. This book brings together the... (more)
Observing Organisations: Anxiety, Defence and Culture in Health Care
The book explores the idea that to prevent or solve problems within organisations, one needs to look not only at the conscious elements, but also to understand the unconscious aspects. It presents a... (more)
Developing Organizational Consultancy
Provides consultants with theoretical and practical advice on how to handle typical consultancy challenges. In the text, consultants from the UK and USA offer descriptions of problems they... (more)
Ideology, Conflict, and Leadership in Groups and Organizations
This text integrates current knowledge of the psychodynamics of individuals, groups and organizations into a theoretical framework. The author shows how the interplay of libidinal and aggressive... (more)
The Personality of the Organization: A Psycho-dynamic Explanation of Culture and Change
Argues that current theories about organisational culture fail because they concentrate on simple, surface issues, and make no attempt to deal with underlying, unconscious processes. Taking concepts... (more)
The Dynamics of the Social: Selected Essays Volume 2
The author reflects on a variety of social situations from a psychoanalytical perspective, drawing from her experiences of working over a thirty-year period. It concludes with a wide-ranging survey... (more)
From Dependency to Autonomy: Studies in Organisation and Change
The author draws on the experiences of three decades of working as an organizational consultant to various sorts of institutions, employing approaches drawn from psychoanalysis, systems theory, and... (more)
Containment, Organisations and the Working Task
With close attention to Wilfred Bion's influence on the literature about groups and organisations, this book explores how containment has been transposed from the clinical setting to enlighten the... (more)
Systems Psychodynamics: Theorist and Practitioner Voices from the Field
Through a series of in-depth interviews with Tavistock thinkers across three generations, this volume illustrates the practice and application of the systems psychodynamics paradigm to organisational... (more)
Family Psychodynamics in Organizational Contexts: The Hidden Forces that Shape the Workplace
This fascinating book shows how an understanding of the psychodynamics of the extended family, from parental relations to sibling rivalries, can provide insight into many of the key issues faced by... (more)
What Lies Beneath: How Organisations Really Work
This book looks beyond the public face and below the surface of organisations. Using a deceptively easy-to-read and accessible narrative concerning eight international organisations, it covers many... (more)
Workplace Intelligence: Unconscious Forces and How to Manage Them
Workplace Intelligence provides a range of insights into the unconscious processes at play in the workplace and an introduction to a balanced approach to organizations.
The book explores key... (more)
Danse Macabre and Other Stories: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Global Dynamics
Danse Macabre and Other Stories: A Psychoanalytic Perspective on Global Dynamics examines the world using a systemic and psychoanalytic lens, including concepts of splitting, separation, projection,... (more)
Dynamics at Boardroom Level: A Tavistock Primer for Leaders, Coaches and Consultants
How can boards and members of boards reach their full potential? The Tavistock Institute of Human Relations (TIHR) has been at the forefront of thinking about organizations since its inception in... (more)
Psychodynamic Organisational Theory: Key Concepts and Case Studies
On the surface, people go to work and come home again. They sometimes manage people while most are managed themselves. But beneath the function and structures of the work itself, a whole range of... (more)
An Existential Approach to Leadership Challenges
In An Existential Approach to Leadership Challenges, Monica Hanaway progresses us forward from a brief, introductory understanding of existential thought to considering how this approach can... (more)
The Tao of Dialogue
Contemporary writers position ‘dialogue’ at the heart of change theory, but what do we mean by ‘dialogue’? The Tao of Dialogue explains through story what dialogue means, and how to leverage dialogic... (more)
Work, Vacation and Well-being: A Psychological Perspective
Based on a twenty-year research study, Work, Vacation and Well-being delves into the ubiquitous yet often-underestimated issues surrounding vacation and respite. Providing an original outlook on how... (more)
Love and Loneliness at Work: An Inspirational Guide for Consultants, Leaders and Other Professionals
Love and loneliness, in both their presence and absence, are key aspects of our lives - including our working lives.
Love and Loneliness at Work offers an accessible and practical... (more)
Global Leadership and Coaching: Flourishing Under Intense Pressure at Work
Global Leadership & Coaching: Flourishing Under Intense Pressure at Work is a unique and personal look at coaching, leading and working internationally, bringing together inspiring, original and... (more)
The Art of Dialogue in Coaching: Towards Transformative Exchange
In The Art of Dialogue in Coaching, Reinhard Stelter invites readers to engage in transformative and fruitful dialogues in everyday working life, and provides the theory and tools for them to be able... (more)
Executive Coaching: Developing Managerial Wisdom in a World of Chaos
This text was written to help organizational consultants understand the pressures and psychodynamic problems that can influence executive behaviour and performance. It shows how methods and... (more)
Leadership and Power: Identity Processes in Groups and Organizations
Leadership and associated power issues lie at the core of group life in a variety of contexts. Even the most informal of groups typically have some form of leadership in their organization, and the... (more)
Collaborative research in organizations
This Book is organized in four sections. Part I, Framing the Challenge, provides grounding in the historical context, the emergent need, and the challenges of working in the borderland between... (more)
Understanding Emotion at Work
Understanding Emotion at Work gets to the heart of what binds and breaks organizations: emotion. It explores beyond the surface of work to the rich emotional life bubbling underneath, showing what... (more)