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Organizations in Depth : The Psychoanalysis of Organizations
Organizations in Depth The Psychoanalysis of Organizations Author:Yiannis Gabriel Yiannis Gabriel's magisterial book provides a systematic examination of the insights that psychoanalysis can offer to the study of organization. Bringing together knowledge and interpretations from an international body of scholarship that has grown up over the past thirty or more years, Gabriel provides a wonderfully accessible and at the same ... more »time exhaustive study of organizational behaviour and its origins in the human psyche,individual and collective. No course on organizational behaviour will ever be the same again. Providing fresh understandings of the role of creativity, control mechanisms, leadership, culture, and emotion in organizations, the book is addressed to multiple readerships: to novice and expert alike; to those with and without systematic knowledge of psychoanalytic theories and concepts; to those with primarily theoretical and to those with primarily practical interests; and finally to organization scholars. The book's structure and content reflect this diversity. Practitioners will find a number of practical cases and illustrative materials in boxes; readers new to psychoanalysis will find a presentation of its core theories in the early chapters of the book and synoptic treatment of the key terms in the thesaurus; students of organization will find in-depth treatments of organizational phenomena such as groups, leadership and culture; doctoral students will find a chapter on research strategies and tactics.« less