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The Workplace Within: Psychodynamics of Organizational Life (Organization Studies series)

The Workplace Within: Psychodynamics of Organizational Life (Organization Studies series)

by Larry Hirschhorn (Author), Larry Hirschhorn (Author)

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Synopsis

In this revealing study, Larry Hirschhorn examines the rituals, or social defenses, organizations develop to cope with change. Using extended ease studies from offices, factories, and social services, he describes why these often irrational practices that fragment and injure individuals within the workplace exist, how they operate, and how they can be reshaped to enhance people's work experience.

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Format: Paperback
 Pages: 278
 Edition: Revised ed.
 Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 24 Jan 1990
ISBN 10: 0262581019
ISBN 13: 9780262581011
Book Overview: The Workplace Within is a deeply ambitious book. It addresses practical human problems in organizations, drawing on solid case data, and at the same time it raises questions at a broad philosophical and policy level about good organizations, how to go beyond social defenses, and the scope of changes required in our political economy to build developmental work cultures... a major contribution toward understanding the felt experience of work in post industrial society... most importantly it represents a methodological breakthrough in that it tells the stories - successful and failed of organization consulting as a 'applied clinical' practice. J.M. Ryan , Human Resource Management

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The Workplace Within is a deeply ambitious book. It addresses practical human problems in organizations, drawing on solid case data, and at the same time it raises questions at a broad philosophical and policy level about good organizations, how to go beyond social defenses, and the scope of changes required in our political economy to build developmental work cultures...a major contribution toward understanding the felt experience of work in post industrial society...most importantly it represents a methodological breakthrough in that it tells the stories-successful and failed of organization consulting as a 'applied clinical' practice. -J.M. Ryan, Human Resource Management
The Workplace Within is a deeply ambitious book. It addresses practical human problems in organizations, drawing on solid case data, and at the same time it raises questions at a broad philosophical and policy level about good organizations, how to go beyond social defenses, and the scope of changes required in our political economy to build developmental work cultures...a major contribution toward understanding the felt experience of work in post industrial society...most importantly it represents a methodological breakthrough in that it tells the stories-successful and failed of organization consulting as a 'applied clinical' practice. -J.M. Ryan, Human Resource Management * Reviews *
Author Bio
Larry Hirschhorn is principal and senior research manager at the Wharton Center for Applied Research.