Complexity and Creativity in Organizations - Hardcover

Stacey, Ralph

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1881052893 ISBN 13: 9781881052890

Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1996

Synopsis

This text seeks to demonstrate what leadership means in an environment where complete control is not possible. Explaining what self-organization means in human systems, it provides a model of the learning organization that takes into account the real-life anxieties that are involved.

About this title

About the Author

Ralph Stacey is a professor of management and director of the Complexity and Management Center at the Business School of the University Hertfordshire.

From the Back Cover

Combining insights from the new science of complexity with insights from psychoanalysis, Stacey posits that repressing the anxiety caused by the unstable, ever-changing nature of today's business world also represses the creative impulses - the ""spaces for novelty"" - that allow members of a workforce to produce their best work. Using the science of complexity as a starting point, he pulls together many insights into behavior and organizational functioning that currently lie at the edges of research and practice. This book invites people to explore what the new science might mean for understanding life in organizations, and shows how it can be used as a framework for understanding the processes that produce emergence rather than intentional strategies. Stacey presents an entirely new perspective on what it means for an organization to learn.

From the Inside Flap

Combining insights from the new science of complexity with insights from psychoanalysis, Stacey posits that repressing the anxiety caused by the unstable, ever-changing nature of today's business world also represses the creative impulses - the "spaces for novelty" - that allow members of a workforce to produce their best work. Using the science of complexity as a starting point, he pulls together many insights into behavior and organizational functioning that currently lie at the edges of research and practice. This book invites people to explore what the new science might mean for understanding life in organizations, and shows how it can be used as a framework for understanding the processes that produce emergence rather than intentional strategies. Stacey presents an entirely new perspective on what it means for an organization to learn.

Reviews

Complexity and Creativity in Organizations effectively combines seemingly divergent concepts from the new sciences, Jungian psychology, and organizational theory to produce a rich, provocative, and useful new model of how organizations will survive in our complex world.

Edition details

• Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers
• Publication date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1881052893
• ISBN 13: 9781881052890
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 312