Working below the surface : the emotional life of contemporary organizations / editors, Clare Huffington ... [et at.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Huffington, Clare.

Series:

Tavistock Clinic series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Organizational change--Psychological aspects.

Organizational change.

Leadership--Psychological aspects.

Leadership.

Organizational effectiveness--Psychological aspects.

Organizational effectiveness.

Organizational change--Psychological aspects--Case studies.

Leadership--Psychological aspects--Case studies.

Organizational effectiveness--Psychological aspects--Case studies.

Psychological aspects.

Genre:

Case studies.

Physical Description:

xx, 245 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Karnac, 2004.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Emotions in organizations: disturbance or intelligence? / David Armstrong 11

Section I Perspectives on Leadership

Chapter 2 Leadership, followership, and facilitating the creative workplace / Anton Obholzer, Sarah Miller 33

Chapter 3 What women leaders can tell us / Clare Huffington 49

Chapter 4 What is the emotional cost of distributed leadership? / Clare Huffington, Kim James, David Armstrong 67

Section II Change and Creativity

Chapter 5 From sycophant to saboteur-responses to organizational change / Linda Hoyle 87

Chapter 6 By what authority? Psychoanalytical reflections on creativity and change in relation to organizational life / William Halton 107

Section III Working Relations in a New Organizational Order

Chapter 7 The vanishing organization: organizational containment in a networked world / Andrew Cooper, Tim Dartington 127

Chapter 8 The discovery and loss of a "compelling space". A case study in adapting to a new organizational order / Sharon A. Horowitz 151

Section IV Working with the Experience of Vulnerability

Chapter 9 Layers of meaning: a coaching journey / Jane Pooley 171

Chapter 10 Clash of the Titans-conflict resolution using a contextualized mediation process / Linda Hoyle 191

Endword / Clare Huffington 205

Appendix I Notes on consultancy approach and techniques 209.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-240) and index.

ISBN:

1855752948

OCLC:

57191107