The Psychology of Organizations and Workplace Issues

Bernd Huppertz is an organizational consultant and coach for organizations, families, individuals, and their advisors in private practice.

Foreword by James Krantz

Acknowledgments

Introduction by Bernd Huppertz

Part I: The Organization: Its Part in the Tension Field of Psychic Life

Chapter 1 – Everyday Life in Organizations (by Bernd Huppertz)

Chapter 2 – Certain Elements of the Organization (by Bernd Huppertz)

Part II: The Organization as a Field of Emotional Experiences

Chapter 3 – Organization and Organizing from Structure to Flux (by Antonio Sama)

Chapter 4 – Hierarchy and Leadership (by Anton Obholzer)

Chapter 5 – The Objective and the Subjective Sides of Organizations (by Leslie B. Brissett)

Part III: The Individual Unconscious and the Group Unconscious

Chapter 6 – Unconscious Anxieties in Organizations (by R. D. Hinshelwood)

Chapter 7 – The Individual Unconscious (by R. D. Hinshelwood)

Chapter 8 – The Group Unconscious and Group Relations (by Susan Long)

Part IV: Regular and Irregular Psychological Processes and Their Influence on Daily Work Functions

Chapter 9 – Members of the Organization: Their Relations, Functions, and the Systems Psychodynamic Framework: Boundary, Authority, Role, and Task (by David Lawlor and Mannie Sher)

Chapter 10 – The Social Psychology of Organizations: Systems and Systems Psychodynamic (by Mannie Sher and David Lawlor)

Part V: The Environment

Chapter 11 – The Organization in Its Environment: Open Systems and Social Ecology and Complexity (by David Lawlor and Mannie Sher)

Part VI: Some Specific Concepts of the Psychology of Organizations

Chapter 12 – Psychological Background: Theories as They Relate to Organizations with Special Reference to the Socio-Technical System (by Mannie Sher and David Lawlor)

Chapter 13 – The Organization in the Mind (by David Armstrong)

Part VII: Summary and Outlook

Chapter 14 – Organizations and Workplace Issues in the Context of Social Sciences and Social Psychology: Summary and Outlook (by Bernd Huppertz)

Appendices—The Long Journey in the Development of Work, Organizations, and Their Workplaces

Appendix A – A Short History of The Long Journey of the Early Organization of Activities Providing Self-Sufficiency, Work, Exchange, and Trade (Over 2.5 Million Years) (by Bernd Huppertz)

Appendix B – The Short History of Work and Organizations and Its Workplaces: The Development of Organizations during the Modern Age up to the Present (Over More than Two Hundred Years) (by Bernd Huppertz)

Index

List of Contributors