Organisational Psychology Books
Managing Organizations: Current Issues
Explores the major issues and debates in management and organization. The textbook addresses key topics such as leadership, decision-making and innovation in organizations alongside such themes as... (more)
The unconscious life of organizations: Interpreting organizational identity
This work offers a contemporary psychodynamic view of organisational life. The author stresses the unconscious dimensions of hierarchic and other work relationships in organisations. He argues that... (more)
Do Organisations Have Feelings?
Do Organizations Have Feelings? argues that any adequate explanation of the way organizations function for those engaged in business and those who study it must transcend the traditional divide... (more)
Systems and Meaning: Consulting in Organizations
This book looks at organisational problems occurring in a particular context, and clearly traces the way problems arise out of relations amongst the different parts of the larger system. It also... (more)
Changing Organizations: Clinicians as Agents of Change
This work provides a rich mine of ideas to stimulate thinking about organisational interaction, and organisations in relation to various socio/cultural values. (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)
Emotional Development: The Organization of Emotional Life in the Early Years
In the past, researchers have treated the development of the emotions and the task of emotional regulation as two separate topics, the former emphasizing 'normative' questions and the latter... (more)
Organizations in depth: The psychoanalysis of organizations
Illustrated with numerous examples, this is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the insights psychoanalysis can offer to the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. 338 pages. (more)
Organizational participation: Myth and reality
Team-working, partnership, quality circles, works councils, industrial democracy, empowerment - are they distinct and innovative arrangements? (more)
Group Relations, Management, and Organization
This collection brings together new and important essays by an international group of authors. The authors represent different cultures, roles, and institutional backgrounds, as well as a variety of... (more)
Learning for Leadership: Interpersonal and Intergroup Relations
This study is designed to teach readers of the human problems of leadership, and to show new conceptions of leadership and new methods of training relevant to our modern industrial society.
This... (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)
Exploring Individual and Organizational Boundaries: A Tavistock Open Systems Approach
One way of conceptualizing the relationship of individuals, through their roles, to their various groupings (such as families, communities, and business and industrial enterprises) is to consider... (more)
Process Consultation Revisited: Building the Helping Relationship (Process Consultation Volume 3)
Focusing on the interaction between consultant and client, this volume explains how to achieve the healthy relationship so essential to effective consultation. Whether the adviser is a therapist,... (more)
Managing Mental Health in the Community: Chaos and Containment
This volume addresses the conscious and unconscius dynamics and systems at work in different community care contexts from the point of view of both practice and management, with the aim of improving... (more)
Social Dreaming @ Work
'"Social Dreaming" is the name given to a method of working with dreams that are shared and associated to within a gathering of people, coming together for this purpose. Its immediate origins date... (more)
Work psychology and organizational behaviour: The management of the individual at work
Tracing the development of work psychology and organizational behaviour from the early 20th century to the present, this book focuses on the relations between knowledge, power and practice. The... (more)
Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Institutional Settings
This is the third volume in the highly successful monograph series produced by the European Federation for Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in the Public Health Services (EFPP). It deals with... (more)
Managing Workplace Stress
Stress in the workplace results in absenteeism, reduced productivity and increased health compensation claims. This book examines the causes of workplace stress and offers useful and practical advice... (more)
A Manual of Organizational Development: The Psychology of Change
A practical guide to the essentials of organisational change which makes complex concepts accessible to managers, consultants, human resources professionals and others. Includes a directory of... (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)
Systems Thinking for Harassed Managers
This book describes the processes that shape organisational life and shows how managers can work together to help one another to work out their problems and develop their skills. The authors draw on... (more)
A Systemic Approach to Consultation
A Systemic Approach to Consultation discusses the application of systemic thinking to work within organizations. The authors draw on their experiences of consulting with teams, departments and whole... (more)
Systemic Work with Organizations: A New Model for Managers and Change Agents
Systemic Work with Organizations explores a powerful new perspective on the challenges faced by managers and consultants who work in large organizations. Building on principles and methods... (more)
Internal Consultation in Health Care Settings
Robert Bor and, Riva Miller, who run the AIDS Counseling Service at the Royal Free Hospital, London, are internationally known for their work in providing consultation to many hospital departments... (more)
Handbook of Counselling in Organizations
The book provides a thorough and detailed examination of the key areas and concerns of counselling in organizations. It is a practical and accessible work and will be invaluable to students and... (more)
Integrity and Change: Mental Health in the Market Place
This study examines how workers in the caring professions might preserve their integrity and ability, and reflect and act purposefully in the face of change in the structures and culture of public... (more)
Executive Leadership: A Practical Guide to Managing Complexity
Achieving decisive, accountable, value-adding, managerial leadership is critical to effective organizations. Jaques and Clement approach this leadership question in an entirely new way. By clarifying... (more)
The Neurotic Organisation: Diagnosing and Changing Counterproductive Styles of Management
Is your organization obsessive-compulsive or passive-aggressive? Corporate neurosis expert Manfred Kets de Vries analyzes dysfunctional organizational behavior in terms of accepted psychoanalytic... (more)