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This book differentiates both the objective structural elements and the subjective emotional elements in organizations and shows how psychological processes cast their influence throughout. It demonstrates the development of work, workplaces, organization, and organizations in the context of psychology and social psychology.
List of contents
Foreword by James Krantz
Acknowledgments
Introduction by Bernd Huppertz
Part I: The Organization: Its Part in the Tension Field of Psychic Life
Chapter 1 - Everyday Life in Organizations (by Bernd Huppertz)
Chapter 2 - Certain Elements of the Organization (by Bernd Huppertz)
Part II: The Organization as a Field of Emotional Experiences
Chapter 3 - Organization and Organizing from Structure to Flux (by Antonio Sama)
Chapter 4 - Hierarchy and Leadership (by Anton Obholzer)
Chapter 5 - The Objective and the Subjective Sides of Organizations (by Leslie B. Brissett)
Part III: The Individual Unconscious and the Group Unconscious
Chapter 6 - Unconscious Anxieties in Organizations (by R. D. Hinshelwood)
Chapter 7 - The Individual Unconscious (by R. D. Hinshelwood)
Chapter 8 - The Group Unconscious and Group Relations (by Susan Long)
Part IV: Regular and Irregular Psychological Processes and Their Influence on Daily Work Functions
Chapter 9 - Members of the Organization: Their Relations, Functions, and the Systems Psychodynamic Framework: Boundary, Authority, Role, and Task (by David Lawlor and Mannie Sher)
Chapter 10 - The Social Psychology of Organizations: Systems and Systems Psychodynamic (by Mannie Sher and David Lawlor)
Part V: The Environment
Chapter 11 - The Organization in Its Environment: Open Systems and Social Ecology and Complexity (by David Lawlor and Mannie Sher)
Part VI: Some Specific Concepts of the Psychology of Organizations
Chapter 12 - Psychological Background: Theories as They Relate to Organizations with Special Reference to the Socio-Technical System (by Mannie Sher and David Lawlor)
Chapter 13 - The Organization in the Mind (by David Armstrong)
Part VII: Summary and Outlook
Chapter 14 - Organizations and Workplace Issues in the Context of Social Sciences and Social Psychology: Summary and Outlook (by Bernd Huppertz)
Appendices-The Long Journey in the Development of Work, Organizations, and Their Workplaces
Appendix A - A Short History of The Long Journey of the Early Organization of Activities Providing Self-Sufficiency, Work, Exchange, and Trade (Over 2.5 Million Years) (by Bernd Huppertz)
Appendix B - The Short History of Work and Organizations and Its Workplaces: The Development of Organizations during the Modern Age up to the Present (Over More than Two Hundred Years) (by Bernd Huppertz)
Index
List of Contributors
About the author
Bernd Huppertz is an organizational consultant and coach for organizations, families, individuals, and their advisors in private practice.
Summary
This book differentiates both the objective structural elements and the subjective emotional elements in organizations and shows how psychological processes cast their influence throughout. It demonstrates the development of work, workplaces, organization, and organizations in the context of psychology and social psychology.
