| Description |
xxi, 161 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. The Psychologically Defensive Workplace -- 2. The Psychological Origins of Personal Responsibility -- 3. The Psychologically Defensive Side of People at Work -- 4. The Psychologically Defensive Side of the Interpersonal World at Work: Managing People and Roles -- 5. The Psychologically Defensive Side of Group Dynamics: The Mob Within -- 6. The Psychologically Defensive Side of Organizational Dynamics -- 7. The Larger Context: The Workplace and Society -- 8. Leading and Managing Change During Stressful Times -- 9. Consulting to Change in Organizations -- 10. The Psychologically Defensive Workplace: Its Implications for Organizations, Research, and Daily Living |
| Summary |
The result is an authoritative study with valuable lessons and immediate benefits for corporate executives, and for scholars and researchers in organizational behavior in the academic community |
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Allcorn and Diamond argue that the workplace has become ever more threatening to employees, and that they respond by creating psychological defenses that make the workplace ever more dysfunctional. To keep organizations competitive and sustain the value of their stock, management demands constant improvements in their employees' performance, but often the result is just the opposite of what management wants. Allcorn and Diamond explore this process in depth, and introduce a comprehensive and internally consistent, psychologically informed model of human development and behavior, one that explains for the first time the nature of the psychologically defensive workplace. In doing so, they challenge readers to think systematically about the psychological side of the workplace and to understand the importance of dealing effectively with employee defensiveness |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [153]-157) and index |
| Subject |
Defensiveness (Psychology)
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Personnel management -- Psychological aspects.
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Psychology, Industrial.
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Stress (Psychology)
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| Author |
Diamond, Michael A. (Michael Alan), 1950-
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| LC no. |
96017925 |
| ISBN |
1567200826 (alk. paper) |
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