Shadow Working in Project Management - Understanding and Addressing the Irrational and Unconscious in Groups

Shadow Working in Project Management explores the tools and techniques available to get in touch with the Shadow aspects of self and collective, to recognize how it manifests, how it can lead to conflict, and ways to address it. Despite being directed to managers and dedicated to the analyses of the managerial discourse, the tools

List of contents

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Professor Dr Louis Klein
PART ONE: THE LEARNING JOURNEY

Introduction

Chapter 1 - The Learning Journey
PART TWO: THE SHADOW OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Chapter 2 - The Shadow of Management Studies - A Literature Review

Chapter 3 - The Shadow of Project Management

Chapter 4 - Integrating the Shadow of Project Management
PART THREE - CONCLUSIVE THOUGHTS

Chapter 5 - Main Shadow-spheres found in project management culture

Chapter 6 - Account on a personal crisis: was Shadow-work worth the hard-work?

Chapter 7 - Conclusive thoughts

Index

About the author

Joana Bértholo is a researcher, novelist and playwright. She first attended the Fine-Arts and later a PhD in Cultural Studies. Art processes are her preferred mode of research, using writing as a platform to investigate on a wide scope of interests, such as technology, sustainability, and the darker aspects of groups and community.

Summary

Shadow Working in Project Management explores the tools and techniques available to get in touch with the Shadow aspects of self and collective, to recognize how it manifests, how it can lead to conflict, and ways to address it. Despite being directed to managers and dedicated to the analyses of the managerial discourse, the tools

Product details

• Authors: Joana Bertholo, Joana Bértholo
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.09.2020
• EAN: 9780367667696
• ISBN: 978-0-367-66769-6
• No. of pages: 202
• Series: Complexity and Interdisciplinarity in Project Management
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Non-fiction book > Psychology, esoterics, spirituality, anthroposophy > Applied psychology; Business & Economics / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Organizational Behavior, PSYCHOLOGY / Industrial & Organizational Psychology, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Project Management, PSYCHOLOGY / Cognitive Psychology & Cognition, Neurosciences, Project management, Occupational and industrial psychology, Occupational & industrial psychology, Cognition and cognitive psychology, Intelligence & reasoning, PSYCHOLOGY / Psychotherapy / Jungian