| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 335 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
On the couch with Manfred Kets de Vries |
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Kets de Vries, Manfred F. R.
On the couch with Manfred Kets de Vries.
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| Contents |
Folie à Deux: Acting Out Your Superior's Fantasies -- Group Dynamics -- High Performance Teams: Lessons From the Pygmies -- The Question of Organizational Culture -- Personality, Culture and Organizations -- The Downside of Downsizing -- Beyond the Quick Fix: The Psychodynamics of Organizational Transformation and Change -- The Dynamics of Family Controlled Firms -- Leadership Coaching for Organizational Transformation -- Can Leaders Change? Yes, but Only if They Want To -- The Many Colors of Success: What Do Executives Want Out of Life? -- Coaching to Stardom: How to Identify and Develop Top Performers -- Conclusion: Creating Authentizotic Organizations |
| Summary |
Reflections on Groups and Organizations is the third and final book in the On the Couch with Manfred Kets de Vries series. Broadening the Kets De Vries canvas, this book examines concepts of organizational health, performance, and change. Material ranges from studies of high performance teams - based on time the author spent with the pygmies of central Africa - to the study of organizational stars, to the use of coaching interventions to improve personal and organizational functioning. Kets de Vries looks at the interpersonal and group processes that determine how organizations work within spe |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-325) and index |
| Subject |
Psychology, Industrial.
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Organizational change -- Psychological aspects
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Psychology, Industrial
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Finance.
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Organizational change -- Psychological aspects
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Psychology, Industrial
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2011276774 |
| ISBN |
0470978732 |
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9780470978733 |
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9781119965978 |
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1119965977 |
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