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This book presents an assumption that the primary task of the residential conferences is to provide those who attend with opportunities to learn about leadership, discussing the role of director and interpersonal and intergroup relations within the staff group.
This book shows the ways in which the boundaries of the basic group relations training conference model of experiential learning have been extended to provide creative, conceptual, and applied links to both management and group and organizational education, training, and consultancy practice.
This is an authoritative sourcebook on a major strand of Group Relations Theory - "learning from experience". This approach was developed jointly from psychoanalytic and open systems theories, including those of Bion, Kegan, Klein and Freud. It will be invaluable for all those involved in working with groups and organisations. The papers in this collection look at the underlying theory and the practical application of learning from experience. They address the broad issues of authority, leadership and organisational culture, whilst concentrating on other issues in-depth, such as inter-group conflict, and gender and race relations in the workplace.
The unconscious dynamics that surface in groups when authority is exercised are of paramount importance in Group Relations Conferences; this volume addresses these considerations through research findings and speculation on the future of Group Relations both within conferences and outside of them. This is the sixth instalment in a series of books based on Tavistock Group Relations Conferences and contains a collection of papers presented at the sixth Belgirate conference. Combining chapters on theory and practice, this volume delivers a meditation on the relationships between the physical spaces we inhabit or co-create, the psychic, inner or spiritual space and the liminal space in-between. ...
"Describes the 'Tavistock Method', which marries psychodynamic principles derived from object-relations theory to the principles and techniques of group dynamics.This volume is one of a series being reissued by Karnac Books representing the theory and practice of organizational development used over many years at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations."--Provided by publisher.
USA. Monograph on theoretical aspects of group dynamics-based training courses to increase interactive skills and induce conscious behavioural change - covers group discussion, psychological aspects, the influence of group size, the role of the consultant, group teaching methods, etc. Bibliography pp. 325 to 334.
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"The field has been waiting for a masterpiece like Racial and Cultural Dynamics in Group and Organizational Life for a long time. It provides a thoughtful account of the subtle, barely visible, and sometimes unspeakable influences of racial and cultural dynamics that occur in groups." —Leo Wilton, Binghamton University, State University of New York "I believe that by focusing on group diversity, this book aligns with a major trend that has not received enough attention." — Christopher J. McCarthy, University of Texas at Austin This book presents a theoretical framework for understanding leadership and authority in group and organizational life. Using relational psychoanalytic and systems...