Organisational Psychology Books
Psychoanalytic Essays on Power and Vulnerability
'This fascinating book, the last in a trilogy on psychoanalytic reflections, edited by Halina Brunning, explores power and vulnerability in three related areas: Leadership and Organizations, the... (more)
Leadership: All You Need To Know
When times are hard, leadership makes the greatest difference. So says the evidence. This book shows how to make the kind of difference that all organizations, both public and private sector, want... (more)
Well-Being and Work: Towards a Balanced Agenda
Work and well-being is one of the fastest growing areas of concern to business, public sector and government. This book looks at the causes of stress in the modern work-place, and offers practical... (more)
The Dynamics of Change: Tavistock Approaches to Improving Social Systems
This book contains reflections of the most important theories and practices of the ‘Tavistock tradition’ over the past 80 to 90 years - psychoanalysis (the role of thought); socio-technical systems... (more)
Positive Psychology at Work: How Positive Leadership and Appreciative Inquiry Create Inspiring Organizations
Positive Psychology at Work brings the fields of positive psychology and appreciative inquiry together for the first time to provide leaders and change agents with a powerful new approach to... (more)
The Revolt of the Primitive: An Inquiry into the Roots of Political Correctness
The Revolt of the Primitive explores the psychological dynamics of political correctness and gender warfare. Author Howard Schwartz argues that perceptions of men as abusers, sexual predators, and... (more)
Tackling Depression at Work: A Practical Guide for Employees and Managers
If you have depression, do you persevere or do you risk telling your manager? If you are a manager, what can you do to support the employee and ensure the job is done? Figures suggest that more than... (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)
Developing Creativity in Organizations
Explores ways of encouraging creativity, by looking at the individual, groups and teams, and then how this can be carried through to organizational level. Case studies and examples are used to show... (more)
Counselling and Psychotherapy in Organisational Settings
This book introduces some of the specific contexts in which today's counsellors and psychotherapists find themselves working. It draws upon the experience of counsellors active in their field and... (more)
Happiness at Work: Maximizing Your Psychological Capital for Success
Sharing the results of her four-year research journey in simple, jargon-free language, Jessica Pryce-Jones exposes the secrets of being happy at work. It focuses on what happiness really means in a... (more)
Workplaces of the Future
Examines change in workplace structures and relations, and considers what the contemporary workplace looks like. This book contains a range of issues and examples from factory and office, manual and... (more)
Body Language in Business: Decoding the Signals
This book is about body language: signals we send and receive, messages we transmit and decipher, and "statements" we make about ourselves nonverbally. Body language is the most primitive system of... (more)
Strategic Supervision: A Brief Guide for Managing Social Service Organizations
Strategic Supervision is a brief, practical guide to the most important aspects of supervisory leadership and personnel management within the social work environment. This is an applications-oriented... (more)
The Reflective Citizen: Organizational and Social Dynamics
This is the first in a "Reflective Citizen" series, the intention being to develop volumes from the various OPUS (An Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society) activities which include... (more)
Olympus Inc: Intervening for Cultural Change in Organizations
In Olympus Inc., Bernie Neville and Tim Dalmau use the ancient Greek Gods to explores the values, practices and beliefs that underpin businesses, schools, corporations and the like, and through this... (more)
Managing Vulnerability: The Underlying Dynamics of Systems of Care
Clinicians, managers and researchers - as well as politicians and religious leaders - are worrying about a lack of compassion and humanity in the care of vulnerable people in society.
In this book... (more)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.10 No.2
Contents in this issue include articles by Junell Silver and Ruthellen Josselson; Hannah Piterman; Francesca Cardona; William Halton; Britta Hogberg; Jean Reed & Thomas N. Gilmore. (more)
Organisational and Social Dynamics Vol.10 No.1
Contents in this issue include articles by Richard Laughlin and Mannie Sher, Robert Hinshelwood, Enrico Pedriali, and Louisa Diana Brunner, Dorit Szykierski, Richard Morgan-Jones, David... (more)
Racial and Cultural Dynamics in Group and Organizational Life: Crossing Boundaries
Offers a theoretical framework for understanding covert and overt processes in group and organizational life. Using psychoanalytic (interpersonal and relational) and systems theory, the book examines... (more)
Organizing and Organizations: Fourth Edition
Organizing and Organizations is well liked by students and lecturers for its accessible, conversational tone and insightful real-life examples that introduce the study of organizations and... (more)
Sex, Money, Happiness, and Death: The Quest for Authenticity
The four main tenets of life, 'Sex, Money, Happiness and Death' are explored in this unique new book that examines the interface between psychology and management. Life is not all about the symbols... (more)
Private Selves in Public Organizations: The Psychodynamics of Organizational Diagnosis and Change
This book explores organizations as not simply rational, technological structures and networks for organizing people around tasks and services; it defines organizations as relational, experiential,... (more)
Partnerships for Inclusive Education: A Critical Approach to Collaborative Working
Increased partnership between professionals indicates a major opportunity for child and parent participation, but one that seems in danger of being side-stepped. This book looks at reasons for this... (more)
Exploring Positive Identities and Organizations
In the new world of work and organizations, creating and maintaining a positive identity is consequential and challenging for individuals, for groups and for organizations. New challenges for... (more)
Trauma and Organizations
This collection of new contributions from psychoanalysts, group analysts and organisational consultants from Europe, Australia and the United States examines the patterns of conscious and unconscious... (more)