1st Edition
Managing Toxic Leaders and Dysfunctional Organizational Dynamics The Psychosocial Nature of the Workplace
Table of Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Author
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
Biography
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, Loyola–Chicago. He has also managed two departments of internal medicine for the University of Missouri–Columbia and the University of Rochester. He has 40y years of experience as an organizational consultant specializing in the management of change, strategic planning, and organizational restructuring.
Dr. Allcorn is the author or co-author of fourteen books, half a dozen chapters, and over ninety papers that have appeared in scholarly and practitioner journals. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.
