Group Relations, Management, and Organization [Hardcover]

This book brings together a timely collection of new and important essays by an international group of well-known authors. It provides reflections and insights on the past, present, and future of the 'group relations' approach, as well as its impact on management, organizations, and institutions.

Introduction
Learning, Managing, and Organizing: The continuing contribution of group relations to management and organization
Theorising Practice in Group Relations
Grouping
A Mind for Business
Systems Psychodynamics in Service of Political Organizational Change
A Political Visionary in Mid-Life: Notes on leadership and the life cycle
Managing the Unconscious at Work
Dependency, Alienation, or Partnership? The changing relatedness of the individual to the enterprise
A Fresh Look at Authority and Organization: Towards a spiritual approach to managing illusion
On Being Frozen in Time
Practising Theory in Group Relations
The Recovery of Meaning
From Envy to Desire: Witnessing the transformation
In the Nick of Time: Reactivating an organization through leader-initiated interactions with members of staff
Mental Health Under Fire: Organizational intervention in a wounded service
The Inner Drama of Role Taking in an Organization
Isolation, Autonomy, and Interdependence in Organizational Life
Team as a Sponge: How the nature of the task affects the behaviour and mental life of a team
After the Conference is Over
Bibliography

Russ Vinceis Professor of Organizational Learning at the Business School, The University of Glamorgan.

Robert Frenchis Senior Lecturer in Organization Behaviour at Bristol Business School, The University of the West of England.