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The Neurotic Organization: Diagnosing and Changing Counterproductive Styles of Management
Is your organization obsessive-compulsive or passive-aggressive? Corporate neurosis expert Manfred Kets de Vries analyzes dysfunctional organizational behavior in terms of accepted psychoanalytic types and arrives at some genuine insights into why some companies are healthier than others.
272 pages, Hardcover
First published August 28, 1984
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Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries
124 books68 followersManfred F.R. Kets de Vries is a Dutch psychologist, Professor of leadership development and organizational change at INSEAD, and consultant
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April 23, 2008
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries & Danny Miller have been among the people who inspired me to start my current activity.
Nevertheless it is difficult for me to agree with the usage of DSM as background 'theory' for organizational psycho-analysis or even psycho-analysis as such...
Although inspiration for the concept of my consulting activity, it has equally become the fundamental difference between our appoaches.
As DSM is a categorial system 'agreed by voting' it is arbirary. It is defind by its ABSENCE of background theory and thus the main reason to defend that by this it can never be put into the category of psycho-analytical theory...
Nevertheless De Vries has been among the first to re-awaken the interest in organizational-psycho-analysis at top management level.
For the reader strange to this field, this book will definately be an eye opener! For him/her it is still very far way from the critique discribed above and with no doubt Manfred De Vries manages to show to the reader how important deeper psycho-logical functioning is to understand Organizations.
Despites us disagreeing at a theoretical level, every manager should read this, as it demonstrates how strong the human subconscious of managers in a leading position affects his resulting behavior...
Nevertheless it is difficult for me to agree with the usage of DSM as background 'theory' for organizational psycho-analysis or even psycho-analysis as such...
Although inspiration for the concept of my consulting activity, it has equally become the fundamental difference between our appoaches.
As DSM is a categorial system 'agreed by voting' it is arbirary. It is defind by its ABSENCE of background theory and thus the main reason to defend that by this it can never be put into the category of psycho-analytical theory...
Nevertheless De Vries has been among the first to re-awaken the interest in organizational-psycho-analysis at top management level.
For the reader strange to this field, this book will definately be an eye opener! For him/her it is still very far way from the critique discribed above and with no doubt Manfred De Vries manages to show to the reader how important deeper psycho-logical functioning is to understand Organizations.
Despites us disagreeing at a theoretical level, every manager should read this, as it demonstrates how strong the human subconscious of managers in a leading position affects his resulting behavior...
March 2, 2013
An interesting work that covers Organisational Behaviour and an examination of what often goes wrong 'at the top'.
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