Foreword by James Krantz

Acknowledgments

Introduction by 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