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Nothing personal, just business : a guided journey into organizational darkness / Howard F. Stein.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Stein, Howard F.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Organizational behavior--United States.
- Organizational behavior.
- Violence in the workplace--United States.
- Violence in the workplace.
- Job stress--United States.
- Job stress.
- Work environment--United States.
- Work environment.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Distribution:
- London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024
- Place of Publication:
- Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2001.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Through vignettes and case studies, this work demonstrates how brutal business practices have become. It shows the importance of psychodynamic mechanisms (especially counter-transference) in understanding and healing dysfunctional business, medical, and educational organizations.
- Contents:
- Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Acknowledgments and Roadmap for This Book; 1 Introduction Don't Take It Personally It's Just Business; 2 Countertransference as Tool in Organizational Theory: The Use of Self to Understand Workplace Violence; 3 Downsizing, Managed Care, and the Potlatching; 4 The Holocaust as Trope for Managed Social Change; 5 Ordinary Brutality at Work; 6 "How Long Can We Circle the Wagons?" Sense of Doom at Work; 7 Rupture and Reconciliation A Case Study; Conclusions; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9798400692277
- 9786610913985
- 9781280913983
- 1280913983
- 9780313002557
- 031300255X
- OCLC:
- 55141640
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