Group Relations, Management, and Organization

by French, Robert; Vince, Russ

• ISBN13: 9780198293675
• ISBN10: 0198293674
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-07-08
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

This book brings together a timely collection of new and important essays by an international group of well-known authors. It provides reflections and insights on the past, present, and future of the 'group relations' approach, as well as its impact on management, organizations, and institutions.

Author Biography

Russ Vince is Professor of Organizational Learning at the Business School, The University of Glamorgan.
Robert French is Senior Lecturer in Organization Behaviour at Bristol Business School, The University of the West of England.

Table of Contents

Figures	vii
About the Authors	ix
Introduction
Learning, Managing, and Organizing: The continuing contribution of group relations to management and organization	1	(22)
Robert French
Russ Vince
Theorizing Practice in Group Relations
Grouping	23	(17)
Barry Palmer
A Mind for Business	40	(14)
W. Gordon Lawrence
Systems Psychodynamics in the Service of Political Organizationl Change	54	(16)
Jean E. Neumann
A Political Visionary in Mid-Life: Notes on leadership and the life cycle	70	(17)
Laurence J. Gould
Managing the Unconscious at Work	87	(11)
Anton Obholzer
Dependency, Alienation, or Partnership? The changing relatedness of the individual to the enterprise	98	(14)
Eric Miller
A Fresh Look at Authority and Organization: Towards a spiritual approach for managing illusion	112	(15)
Gouranga P. Chattopadhyay
On Being Frozen in Time	127	(18)
Alastair Bain
Practising Theory in Group Relations
The Recovery of Meaning	145	(10)
David Armstrong
From Envy to Desire: Witnessing the transformation	155	(18)
David Gutmann
Jacqueline Ternier-David
Christophe Verrier
In the Nick of Time: Reactivating an organization through leaderinitiated interactions with members of staff	173	(17)
Siv Boalt Boethius
Mental Health Under Fire: Organizational intervention in a wounded service	190	(19)
Mira Erlich-Ginor
Shmuel Erlich
The Inner Drama of Role Taking in an Organization	209	(15)
Joseph Triest
Isolation, Autonomy, and Interdependence in Organizational Life	224	(15)
Vega Zagier Roberts
The Team as a Sponge: How the nature of the task affects the behavior and mental life of a team	239	(12)
Francesca Cardona
After the Conference is Over	251	(14)
Sheila Ramsay
Bibliography	265	(12)
Index	277