Nothing Personal, Just Business: A Guided Journey Into Organizational Darkness
Editorial Reviews
Review
“[A]ll is not well in organisations and this book offers valuable insights to redress such a state, a challenge made more manageable.”–
“This book is the most recent of several that Stein has written, alone and with others, on the emotional dynamics of the workplace. He has offered psychohistorians who have the heart and the will a foundation to work from that might at last help us understand the why of the workplace and the nature of what we have done to ourselves. Think about it...”–
Book Description
Throughout the United States and indeed the world, organizations have become places of darkness, where emotional savagery and brutality are now commonplace and where psychological forms of violence--intimidation, degradation, dehumanization--are the norm. Stein succeeds in countering official pronouncements that "all is well" simply because unemployment is low and productivity high. Through the use of symbol and metaphor he gives us access to the interior experience of organizational life today. He employs a form of disciplined subjectivity, based on Freud's concept of counter-transference, and other methods to help us comprehend what such dominating notions as "managed social change" really mean.
Nothing Personal, Just Business: A Guided Journey Into Organizational Darkness
Nothing Personal, Just Business: A Guided Journey Into Organizational Darkness,Howard F. Stein,Quorum Books,1567204422,Business & Economics,Business / Economics / Finance,Business/Economics,Industrial & Organizational Psychology,Job stress,Organizational Behavior,Reference - General,United States,Violence in the workplace,Work environment,Business & Economics / Organizational Behavior,Occupational & industrial psychology,Organizational theory & behaviour
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