| Title : | Organizations in depth | | Material Type: | printed text | | Authors: | Yiannis Gabriel, Author | | Publisher: | London : Sage Publications | | Publication Date: | 1999 | | Pagination: | viii, 338 p. | | Layout: | ill. (b & w) | | Size: | 25 cm | | ISBN (or other code): | 978-0-7619-5261-9 | | General note: | Illustrated with numerous examples, this is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the insights psychoanalysis can offer to the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. | | Class number: | 302.35 | | Abstract: | Yiannis Gabriel's illuminating Organizations in Depth provides a systematic examination of the insights that the fields of psychoanalysis and pyschodynamics contribute to the study of human behaviour and experiences in organizations. Bringing together knowledge and interpretations from an international body of scholarship that has evolved during the last 40 years, Gabriel provides an accessible, and at the same time exhaustive, study of unconscious processes in organizational contexts, yet one which does not reduce social and political phenomena to pyschological ones.
Providing fresh insights on power and control mechanisms, leadership, group behavior, culture, and emotion in organizations, the book is addressed to the novice and expert alike. Practitioners will find practical cases and illustrative materials in boxes; readers new to psychoanalysis will find a presentation of its core theories and concise treatment of the key terms in the glossary; students of organization will find in-depth discussion of the organizational dynamics at work at the individual, group and social levels; and for doctoral stuents there is a chapter on research strategies and tactics.
Yiannis Gabriel is widely known for his work on organizational symbolism. storytelling and consumer culture. He teaches organizational studies at the University of Bath and is c-editor of the journal Management Learning. Organizations in Depth was written with vlauable contributions from Larry Hirschhorn, Marion McCollom Hampton, Howard S. Schwartz and Glenn Swogger Jr. |
Organizations in depth [printed text] / Yiannis Gabriel, Author . - London : Sage Publications, 1999 . - viii, 338 p. : ill. (b & w) ; 25 cm. ISBN : 978-0-7619-5261-9 Illustrated with numerous examples, this is a comprehensive and systematic examination of the insights psychoanalysis can offer to the study of organizations and organizational behaviour. | Class number: | 302.35 | | Abstract: | Yiannis Gabriel's illuminating Organizations in Depth provides a systematic examination of the insights that the fields of psychoanalysis and pyschodynamics contribute to the study of human behaviour and experiences in organizations. Bringing together knowledge and interpretations from an international body of scholarship that has evolved during the last 40 years, Gabriel provides an accessible, and at the same time exhaustive, study of unconscious processes in organizational contexts, yet one which does not reduce social and political phenomena to pyschological ones.
Providing fresh insights on power and control mechanisms, leadership, group behavior, culture, and emotion in organizations, the book is addressed to the novice and expert alike. Practitioners will find practical cases and illustrative materials in boxes; readers new to psychoanalysis will find a presentation of its core theories and concise treatment of the key terms in the glossary; students of organization will find in-depth discussion of the organizational dynamics at work at the individual, group and social levels; and for doctoral stuents there is a chapter on research strategies and tactics.
Yiannis Gabriel is widely known for his work on organizational symbolism. storytelling and consumer culture. He teaches organizational studies at the University of Bath and is c-editor of the journal Management Learning. Organizations in Depth was written with vlauable contributions from Larry Hirschhorn, Marion McCollom Hampton, Howard S. Schwartz and Glenn Swogger Jr. |
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