Research Catalog

Title

Insight and imagination : a study in knowing and not-knowing in organizational life / Howard F. Stein.

Author

Stein, Howard F.

Publication

Lanham, Md. : University Press of America, [2007], ©2007.

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Details

Description

xxi, 196 pages; 24 cm

Subject

• Organizational sociology > Research
• Organizational change
• Countertransference (Psychology)
• Problem solving
• Imagination

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

1. Countertransference and organizational knowing : understanding from the inside as well as the outside -- 2. "The centre and circumference of knowledge" : the use of poetry as a tool of countertransference in organizational knowing and consulting -- 3. Uncovering an organizational conference's hidden agendas -- 4. Red herrings in the workplace : on not solving the wrong problem -- 5. Learning how to help : an applied anthropologist's role in massive organizational change -- 6. The role of our words in the masking and unmasking of organizational experience -- 7. Trusting the journey : the narrative history of an organizational consultation -- 8. Letting go of who we were : the triad of change-loss-grief in organizational and wider cultural life -- 9. The dangers of not reflecting on what we are doing in workplaces -- 10. The inner world of workplaces : learning about real world workplaces through art -- 11. Ways of knowing in medicine and other worlds of work : objectivized seeing and beyond -- 12. The consultant's story as conduit to the client and organization's story : fiction as guide to organizational reality -- 13. Summary, conclusions : a documentary play.

ISBN

• 9780761837459 (clothbound : alk. paper)
• 0761837450 (clothbound : alk. paper)
• 9780761837442 (paperback : alk. paper)
• 0761837442 (paperback : alk. paper)

LCCN

2007923877

OCLC

• ocn145591757
• 145591757
• SCSB-5350997

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries