The Personality of the Organization: A Psycho-dynamic Explanation of Culture and Change
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- Publisher : Free Association Books
- Published : January 1996
- Cover : Paperback
- Category :
Organisational Psychology - Category 2 :
Group Psychotherapy - Catalogue No : 2146
- ISBN 13 : 9781853433429
- ISBN 10 : 185343342X
Also by Lionel F. Stapley
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Argues that current theories about organisational culture fail because they concentrate on simple, surface issues, and make no attempt to deal with underlying, unconscious processes. Taking concepts from psychoanalysis, the author uses them to understand the collective feelings of members of organisations. 230 pages.
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Author Biography:
Lionel Stapley PhD is an organizational consultant and the Director of OPUS (An Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society) an educational charity that seeks to encourage the study of conscious and unconscious processes in society and institutions within it. He is also a member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CFIPD), and a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management (FCIM).
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Lionel Stapley PhD is an organizational consultant and the Director of OPUS (An Organisation for Promoting Understanding of Society) an educational charity that seeks to encourage the study of conscious and unconscious processes in society and institutions within it. He heads up the OPUS Group Processes Program; and is an organisational consultant working in the public and private sectors in the UK and in other countries with individuals, groups and sometimes whole organisations. He has a particular interest in organisational culture and change. He is also a member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations, a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Personnel and Development (CFIPD), and a Chartered Fellow of the Institute of Management (FCIM).
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