
An Existential-Systems Approach to Managing Organizations
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The Kellys make clear that their book reflects a movement away from the academic-purist position, where the sole concern is with theoretically significant research, to a position which recognizes that organizational behavior is a crossroads subject where traffic [that comes] mainly from behavioral science, computer technology, and economics coalesces with the ideas streaming out of organizational practice. Aimed at professional managers and students, both undergraduates as well as those on the M.B.A. level, this book assumes little prior knowledge of behavioral science or organizational theory. Readers will get what they need of those subjects here, enough to follow Kelly's argument. They will see how behavioral and organizational research has helped (but sometimes hindered) executives as they attempt to deal with critical happenings in their jobs. With case study material woven into the text and with observations from his own experiences with business as well as academic organizations, the Kellys' book is a readable, engrossing argument for and against the orthodoxies of organizational behavior studies-and the assurance that whatever else it may or not be, organizational behavior is certainly not static.
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LOUISE KELLY is an assistant professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Northeastern University, Boston. Dr. Kelly's research interests include the intuitive and emotional aspect of strategic decision making as well as family business management. She has taught strategic management, entrepreneurship, and small business management.
Content
Part I: Introduction
Managing Organizations: An Existential-Systems Approach
Existential-Systems Theory
Part II: People Moving Through Organizations
Personality
Predictable Crises of Executive Life
The Executive Personality: Female and Male
Motivation
Stress and the Executive
The Cassandra Complex
Part III: Group Dynamics and Leading
The Psychic Bubble of Group Dynamics
Communications
More Effective Leadership Styles
Part IV: The Organization: Its Political Economy
Organizational Politics: Authority versus Power
The Conspiracy Theory
Part V: The Organization: Decision, Conflict, and Development
Organizational Decision Making
Conflict in Organizations
Part VI: Existentialism in Action
Existential Strategy
Managing by Zen
The CEO Super Guru: The Computer Organization and the YUMMIC
Bibliography
Index
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