Humanness in Organisations

Leopold S. Vansina, PhD, is Professor Emeritus at the Catholic University of Leuven and Universite de Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium. He worked as an organization consultant at the International Institute for Organizational and Social Development (IOD Leuven), which he founded and directed for twenty-five years. He has headed the Professional Development Institute (Pro-Dev. Ltd) and is a member of the Academy of Management, and ISPSO.

Foreword , General introduction , Taking a Closer Look , Introduction , Psychic imprisonment and its release within organisations and working relationships , Work, management, and psychic health , Approaching twenty-first century, information-based organisations , Are we losing the group in the study of group dynamics? Three illustrations , Notes towards a model of organisational therapy , Thoughts and Ideas for the Practice , Introduction , Processing mental representations of roles: alternating written and face-to-face interactions , Facilitating transitional change , Feedback or reviewing: a conceptual clarification of the differential impact on human beings and work systems , Conversations on work , Enacting one’s way to new thinking: using critical incidents to vitalise authentic collaboration and learning , Epilogue