Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xxi, 196 pages; 24 cm

Subject

1. Countertransference (Psychology)
2. Imagination
3. Problem solving
4. Organizational sociology > Research
5. Organizational change

Contents

1. 1. Countertransference and organizational knowing : understanding from the inside as well as the outside -- 2. "The centre and circumference of knowledge" : the use of poetry as a tool of countertransference in organizational knowing and consulting -- 3. Uncovering an organizational conference's hidden agendas -- 4. Red herrings in the workplace : on not solving the wrong problem -- 5. Learning how to help : an applied anthropologist's role in massive organizational change -- 6. The role of our words in the masking and unmasking of organizational experience -- 7. Trusting the journey : the narrative history of an organizational consultation -- 8. Letting go of who we were : the triad of change-loss-grief in organizational and wider cultural life -- 9. The dangers of not reflecting on what we are doing in workplaces -- 10. The inner world of workplaces : learning about real world workplaces through art -- 11. Ways of knowing in medicine and other worlds of work : objectivized seeing and beyond -- 12. The consultant's story as conduit to the client and organization's story : fiction as guide to organizational reality -- 13. Summary, conclusions : a documentary play.

Owning institution

1. Columbia University Libraries

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and index.