Systemic Work with Organizations

Systemic Work with Organizations
Author: David Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2018-03-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429919689

Systemic Work with Organizations explores a powerful new perspective on the challenges faced by managers and consultants who work in large organizations. Building on principles and methods originally developed in the family arena, the authors show how an emphasis on connection, context and communication can help managers and others involved in change, deal with issues of identity, leadership, and learning faced by staff in today's complex work environment.The main thesis is that one way cause and effect thinking and a central focus on the role of the individual, is no longer sufficient. Managers and change agents now need to make use of the insights and interventions offered by a systemic perspective that highlights the roles played by circularity and reflexivity in how people construct shared meaning in human systems.

Systems and Meaning

Systems and Meaning
Author: Gitte Haslebo
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 136
Release: 2018-04-27
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429919697

This book looks at organisational problems occurring in a particular context, and clearly traces the way problems arise out of relations amongst the different parts of the larger system. It also pursues the meanings that these problems have for individuals and organisations alike. The authors, who are both practitioners experienced in working with organisations, show how their ideas can be implemented in different settings.

Organizations Connected

Organizations Connected
Author: David Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 183
Release: 2020-06-16
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429917082

This book shows the underlying thinking of experienced consultants deciding how to position themselves in organizations, seeking to enable organizational change to occur and redefining their relationships with their clients over time and according to organizational need using a systemic lens.

Reflexive Inquiry

Reflexive Inquiry
Author: Christine Oliver
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 150
Release: 2018-04-24
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 042991847X

This book sets out to explain how the reflexive inquiry model can be adapted to research so that consultants can continue to evaluate their work and learn from the process. It draws out some implications of the principles, arguments, models, and tools presented for undertaking research.

The Handbook of Large Group Methods

The Handbook of Large Group Methods
Author: Barbara Benedict Bunker
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 411
Release: 2012-06-26
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1118429583

Large Group Interventions are methods used to gather a whole system together to discuss and take action on the target agenda. That agenda varies from future plans, products, and services, to redesigning work, to discussion of troubling issues and problems. The Handbook of Large Group Methods takes the next step in demonstrating through a series of cases how Large Group Methods are currently being used to address twenty-first-century challenges in organizations and communities today, including: Working with widely dispersed organizations, and the problem of involvement and participation Working with organizations facing a serious business crisis Working with organizations in polarized and politicized environments Working in community settings with diverse interest groups Working at the global level and adapting these methods for cross-cultural use Embedding and sustaining new patterns of working together in organizations and communities

Invisible Dynamics

Invisible Dynamics
Author: Klaus P Horn
Publisher: Carl-Auer Verlag
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2018-09-01
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 3849781690

The company isn't booming, the customers are drifting away, innovation is at a standstill – What's wrong? A rational analysis can provide you with pieces of the problem, but never the whole picture. Systemic constellations give you the missing link. Success with this method in companies such as Daimler-Chrysler, IBM, and BMW has contributed to a booming interest in Europe. When the systemic structure of a team, company or market becomes clear, it is obvious what has to happen next. Individuals who are not involved in the problem situation are used to represent people or parts of the company and a trained consultant uses feedback from the representatives to reveal hidden dynamics and point to solutions. Anyone in a position of responsibility in industry or government, or an organisation in health education or welfare can profit from this book. It is easy to read and practical, with case examples and short summaries for quick scanning. "A totally obscure situation suddenly became as clear as day. How come we couldn't see the obvious before?! For all of our company leaders it was a total revelation." O. Wassermann, CEO of Wassermann AG/Swisslog, Munich, Germany

A Systemic Approach to Consultation

A Systemic Approach to Consultation
Author: David Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 113
Release: 2018-03-26
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429910517

A Systemic Approach to Consultation discusses the application of systemic thinking to work within organizations. The authors draw on their experiences of consulting with teams, departments and whole organizations in both the public and private sectors. They describe their work as an integrated approach called Development Consultation, which focuses on the beliefs and behaviors in the wider system which makes it difficult for organizations to manage their own processes of change. The authors then discuss the way they formulate systemic problems and the interventions, particularly the interviewing technique, which they have used in numerous case examples. The book is intended as a handbook for professionals from any discipline who are engaged in consultation work.

The Framework of Systemic Organization

The Framework of Systemic Organization
Author: Marie-Luise Friedemann
Publisher: SAGE
Total Pages: 419
Release: 1995-09-07
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 0803949146

While explaining the interaction of modifying factors such as the family structure, life span considerations, and cultural influences within the family, The Framework of Systemic Organization emphasizes family health and healthy adaptation to change. It then focuses on crises resulting from illness and the environment - such as poverty and homelessness - and explores the effects these factors have on family members' wellness.

Systemic Consultancy in Organisations

Systemic Consultancy in Organisations
Author: Roswita Königswieser
Publisher: Carl-Auer Verlag
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2016-11-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 3849780511

This introduction to systemic organisational consulting addresses a readership from a wide range of professions. The authors, consultants with the renowned Vienna-based Königswieser & Network GmbH, describe their integrated approach to business and systemic process consulting for the commercial and non-profit sectors. The book contains chapters that deal with the basic principles of this approach, the specific kind of systemic intervention, consulting in difficult situations, as well as the future of organisational development and consulting. It is complemented by articles focusing on topics including personnel cutbacks, corporate governance practices, and executive coaching at the individual and team levels. "We have experienced many different consulting approaches and forms of management training in the past, but the work done by Königswieser & Network was truly remarkable. It is largely thanks to them that the employees involved in the project in our organization are now highly motivated, raring to go and brimming with enthusiasm." Wilhelm Braun, Eurovia Services

Taking Positions in the Organization

Taking Positions in the Organization
Author: David Campbell
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 174
Release: 2018-04-19
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 0429919786

This book on social constructionist thinking addresses the manager's job for creating reflective space for people to observe themselves and others. It explores broad societal and organizational discourses that offer positions from day-to-day realities that govern behaviour are constructed.