Organisational Psychology Books
Group Relations Conferences: Reviewing and Exploring Theory, Design, Role-Taking and Application
Group Relations Conferences contains the collection of papers presented at the Belgirate conference plus two additional papers, representing a collective picture of the current group relations... (more)
Containing Anxiety in Institutions: Selected Essays Volume 1
This is a controversial collection, which makes available to a wider public an important part of the research tradition of the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. The author extends her analytic... (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)
Flexible Work: Designing our Healthier Future Lives
Flexible Work: Designing Our Healthier Future Lives examines flexible working from a psychological perspective and presents research evidence from social science to address what forms of flexible... (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)
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)
To Be Met as a Person at Work: The Effect of Early Attachment Experiences on Work Relationships
This book provides an account of how the 'Theory of Attachment-Based Exploratory Interest Sharing' (TABEIS) and the practice of Goal Corrected Empathic Attunement (GCEA) was used in a university... (more)
Leading at All Levels: Using Systemic Ideas to Get the Most out of the Workplace
This is an innovative text which aims to make systemic ideas available to a wider market for the first time. A central theme is to get maximum benefit out of the workplace. These ideas will appeal... (more)
Transforming Experience in Organisations: A Framework for Organisational Research and Consultancy
This book explores a theoretical model – the Transforming Experience Framework (TEF) - used to understand the complexities and ambiguities of experience within organisational life. The TEF explores... (more)
Cultural Change and Leadership in Organizations: A Practical Guide to Successful Organizational Change
Cultural Change and Leadership in Organizations discusses ways in which organizations are able to implement successful strategic change; inspirational and conceptual material is combined with... (more)
Resource-ful Consulting: Working with your Presence and Identity in Consulting to Change
Consultants and practitioners working with change can feel at a loss as to how to help their clients move forward. Organisations get stuck in routine ways even when they have innovations in mind.... (more)
Creating a Coaching Culture for Managers in Your Organisation
Creating a Coaching Culture for Managers in Your Organisation is for managers, leaders and coaches interested in extending the practice of coaching to achieve broader organisational outcomes. The... (more)
Humanness in Organisations: A Psychodynamic Contribution
Humanness in Organizations is a unique contribution from the social sciences to the betterment of organizational life. The authors argue that working life can only become more humane when we change... (more)
The Art of Group Analysis in Organisations: The Use of Intuitive and Experiential Knowledge
Leaders, teams and organisational consultants are faced with a situation of permanent transitions. The current world of organisations is full of beginnings and incomplete endings. The author assumes... (more)
Managing Trauma in the Workplace: Supporting Workers and Organisations
Managing Trauma in the Workplace looks at the impact of trauma not only from the perspective of the employees but also from that of their organisations. In addition to describing the negative... (more)
Images of Organization
Aims to reshape how we think about organization and management. This book is useful for students and business leaders. An accompanying CD-ROM contains instructor's resources to aid classroom... (more)
Taking Positions in the Organization
This volume provides a positive and productive model for helping people to move out of static positions or difficult relationships in the workplace. Informed by systemic thinking and social... (more)
Disillusionment: Dialogue of Lacks
This current volume by successful consultants to leading organizations and institutions combines two of their recent papers. The first paper, 'Disillusionment', looks at the phenomenon of illusion... (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)
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)
Social Dreaming @ Work: 1637
'"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)
Staff Supervision in a Turbulent Environment: Managing Process and Task in Front-line Services
Focusing on the relationship between supervisor and supervisee, this text explores ways of thinking about how the processes of supervision interact with the accomplishment of supervisory tasks. There... (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)
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)
Psychodynamics of Work and Organisations: From Theory to Consultation
In this book, William M. Czander demonstrates that applying depth psychology to the organization and its employees provides a deeper understanding of the American workplace than traditional... (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)