Managing Toxic Leaders and Dysfunctional Organizational Dynamics

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Managing Toxic Leaders and Dysfunctional Organizational Dynamics

The Psychosocial Nature of the Workplace

Occupational and industrial psychology Management: leadership and motivation Organizational theory and behaviour

Author: Seth Allcorn

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Language: English

Published by: Productivity Press

Published on: 29th April 2024

Format: LCP-protected ePub

ISBN: 9781040019955


Understanding Experience at Work

Understanding experience at work, especially in organizations that have toxic leaders and dysfunctional organizational dynamics, is a multidimensional undertaking that must include in-depth perspectives informed by psychosocial theory. This may be best accomplished by relying on complementary theories to account for what is found and experienced in our organizations and in particular a better understanding of why this is happening. "Why did she do that?" "Why did he say that?" "Why did a group react the way they did?" “Why,” is critical in terms of understanding organizational dynamics.

Organizational Dynamics and Toxicities

Our lives at work in large complex and multidimensional organizations are saturated with experience, some of which is fulfilling, and some are of a darker nature that arises from the presence of toxic leaders and dysfunctional organizational dynamics. Understanding these toxicities and dysfunctions and their effect on organization members is approached by first raising their awareness at the beginning of the book before providing psychosocially informed insights that form a basis for understanding and organizational change in the following sections.

Exploring Work-Life Dynamics

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.

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