Group Relations, Management, and Organization

Russ Vince is Professor of Organizational Learning at the Business School, The University of Glamorgan.Robert French is Senior Lecturer in Organization Behaviour at Bristol Business School, The University of the West of England.

"...worthwhile reading for academics interested in organisational theory and the implications of this theory for practice." Cary Cooper, THES, 24/03/2000

• 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