Working Below the Surface: The Emotional Life of Contemporary Organizations

by Clare Huffington (Editor), William Halton (Editor), David Armstrong (Editor), Jane Pooley (Editor)

Overview

The chapters contributed to this book have been written by the staff and associates of The Tavistock Consultancy Service, whose distinctive competence is in the human dimension of enterprise and the dynamics of the workplace. The intention is to identify and explore some of the key themes that have emerged, such as the emotional world of the org

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367329884
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	07/31/2019
Series:	Tavistock Clinic Series
Pages:	268
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ann Horne trained in the Independent tradition at the BAP. She has discovered that retirement (after 10 years latterly at the Portman Clinic, London) can become very crowded and makes occasional sorties from behind the keyboard to speak and teach in the UK and abroad.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements ix

Contributors xi

Series Editor's Preface xv

Foreword Nick Temple xvii

Introduction David Armstrong Clare Huffington 1

Chapter 1 Emotions in organizations: disturbance or intelligence? David Armstrong 11

Section I Perspectives on Leadership

Introduction Clare Huffington 31

Chapter 2 Leadership, followership, and facilitating the creative workplace Anton Ubholzer Sarah Miller 33

Chapter 3 What women leaders can tell us Clare Huffington 49

Chapter 4 What is the emotional cost of distributed leadership? Clare Huffington Kim James David Armstrong 67

Section II Change and Creativity

Introduction William Walton Linda Hoyle 85

Chapter 5 From sycophant to saboteur-responses to organizational change Linda Hoyle 87

Chapter 6 By what authority? Psychoanalytical reflections on creativity and change in relation to organizational life William Halton 107

Section III Working Relations in a New Organizational Order

Introduction David Armstrong 125

Chapter 7 The vanishing organization: organizational containment in a networked world Andrew Cooper Tim Dartington 127

Chapter 8 The discovery and loss of a "compelling space". A case study in adapting to a new organizational order Sharon A. Horowitz 151

Section IV Working with the Experience of Vulnerability

Introduction Linda Hoyle Jane Pooley 167

Chapter 9 Layers of meaning: a coaching journey Jane Pooley 171

Chapter 10 Clash of the Titans-conflict resolution using a contextualized mediation process Linda Hoyle 191

Endword Clare Huffington 205

Appendix I Notes on consultancy approach and techniques 209

Appendix II Glossary 223

References 231

Index 241