Resistance to change: a psychoanalytic critique of Argyris and Schon's contributions to organization theory and intervention

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The purpose of this essay is to examine psychoanalytically Argyris and Schon's contributions to organization theory and intervention. The author focuses his attention on the problem of individual and organizational resistance to change in the light of Argyris and Schon's cognitive psychological assumptions about learning, reasoning, and effectiveness. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Analysis, Corporations, Criticism and interpretation, Organizational effectiveness, Organizational research, Argyris, C., Schon, D.

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Psychological dimensions of personal responsibility for public management: an object relations approach

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Object relations theory is used to chart the psychological elements involved in the acceptance of personal responsibility in public management. Participant-observer sets of values are necessary if personal responsibility is to be acquired. However, this runs counter to the normal tendencies toward repression and defensiveness.

Management research

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Invoking Satan or the ethics of the employment contract

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The psychological effects and emotional impact of mergers upon the middle and senior managers of the merging firms are discussed.

Public affairs, Social aspects, Acquisitions and mergers, Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Managers

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