Foreword by James Krantz
Acknowledgments
Introductionby Bernd Huppertz
Part I: The Organization: Its Part in the Tension Field of Psychic Life
Chapter 1 – Everyday Life in Organizations (by Bernd Huppertz)
Chapter 2 – Certain Elements of the Organization (by Bernd Huppertz)
Part II: The Organization as a Field of Emotional Experiences
Chapter 3 – Organization and Organizing from Structure to Flux (by Antonio Sama)
Chapter 4 – Hierarchy and Leadership (by Anton Obholzer)
Chapter 5 – The Objective and the Subjective Sides of Organizations (by Leslie B. Brissett)
Part III: The Individual Unconscious and the Group Unconscious
Chapter 6 – Unconscious Anxieties in Organizations (by R. D. Hinshelwood)
Chapter 7 – The Individual Unconscious (by R. D. Hinshelwood)
Chapter 8 – The Group Unconscious and Group Relations (by Susan Long)
Part IV: Regular and Irregular Psychological Processes and Their Influence on Daily Work Functions
Chapter 9 – Members of the Organization: Their Relations, Functions, and the Systems Psychodynamic Framework: Boundary, Authority, Role, and Task (by David Lawlor and Mannie Sher)
Chapter 10 – The Social Psychology of Organizations: Systems and Systems Psychodynamic (by Mannie Sher and David Lawlor)
Part V: The Environment
Chapter 11 – The Organization in Its Environment: Open Systems and Social Ecology and Complexity (by David Lawlor and Mannie Sher)
Part VI: Some Specific Concepts of the Psychology of Organizations
Chapter 12 – Psychological Background: Theories as They Relate to Organizations with Special Reference to the Socio-Technical System (by Mannie Sher and David Lawlor)
Chapter 13 – The Organization in the Mind (by David Armstrong)
Part VII: Summary and Outlook
Chapter 14 – Organizations and Workplace Issues in the Context of Social Sciences and Social Psychology: Summary and Outlook (by Bernd Huppertz)
Appendices—The Long Journey in the Development of Work, Organizations, and Their Workplaces
Appendix A – A Short History of The Long Journey of the Early Organization of Activities Providing Self-Sufficiency, Work, Exchange, and Trade (Over 2.5 Million Years) (by Bernd Huppertz)
Appendix B – The Short History of Work and Organizations and Its Workplaces: The Development of Organizations during the Modern Age up to the Present (Over More than Two Hundred Years) (by Bernd Huppertz)
Index
List of Contributors