Organizational Paradoxes: Clinical approaches to management (International Behavioural and Social Sciences, Classics from the Tavistock Press) - Hardcover

Manfred F. R. Kets De Vries

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0415264669 ISBN 13: 9780415264662

Publisher: Routledge, 2001

Synopsis

Tavistock Press was established as a co-operative venture between the Tavistock Institute and Routledge & Kegan Paul (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences.
This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by Routledge, 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press.
Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1980 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.

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About the Author

Professor Manfred F. R. Kets de Vries is a practising psychoanalyst and clinical professor of management and leadership at the European Institute of Business Administration (INSEAD) in Fontainebleau, France.

Review

1. Introduction 2. The oblomov threat 3. The organization of emptiness 4. Power and helplessness 5. An alternative view of power 6. Leadership and paranoia 7. Folie a deux 8. The entrepreneurial personality 9. The mid-career crisis: a renewed search for identity 10. Is there life at retirement? 11. Metamorphosis

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0415264669
• ISBN 13: 9780415264662
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 226