Managing Toxic Leaders and Dysfunctional Organizational Dynamics: The Psychosocial Nature of the Workplace [Paperback]

This book explores these work-life dynamics by grounding them in concrete examples and then using complementary psychoanalytically informed perspectives to illuminate their underlying, often unconscious nature filling an important gap in management and organizational literature.

Chapter 1 An Introduction to Understanding the Psychosocial Nature of Organizational Life?Chapter 2 An Overview of the Psychosocial Organization?Part One Destructive Organizational Dynamics?Chapter 3 Oppression at Work?Chapter 4 Autocratic, Authoritarian, and Oppressive Leadership?Chapter 5 Adapting to the Dysfunctional Organization?Part Two Organizational Fragmentation and Falling Apart?Chapter 6 Falling Apart: Organizational Fragmentation Chapter 7 Falling Apart: Group Fragmentation?Chapter 8 Falling Apart: Interpersonal Fragmentation?Chapter 9 Falling Apart: Personal Fragmentation?Part Three Organizational Healing?Chapter 10 The Psychological Dimensions of Roles in Organizations?Chapter11 Diagnosing Organizational Narcissism?Chapter 12 Understanding Dysfunctional Organizational Dynamics and Leadership?Chapter 13 Consulting to Dysfunctional Organizations?Chapter 14 Intentional Leadership?Chapter 15 Looking Back and Looking Forward

Seth Allcorn, Ph.D., M.B.A. is the former Vice President for Business and Finance at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. Dr. Allcorn has more than twenty years of experience working with physicians, hospitals, and academic medical centers. He has served as a financial and administrative Assistant Dean at the Texas Tech School of Medicine and Associate Dean for the Stritch School of Medicine, LoyolaChicago. He has also managed two departments of internal medicine for the University of MissouriColumbia and the University of Rochester. He has 40y years of experience as an organizational consultant specializing in the management of change, strategic pl“©