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Diamond, Michael Alan was born on November 4, 1950 in Washington, District of Columbia, United States. Son of Irving and Sylvia (Ottenstein) Diamond.
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The Unconscious Life of Organizations: Interpreting Organizational Identity by Michael A. Diamond (1993-06-30)
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The Unconscious Life of Organizations: Interpreting Organizational Identity
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This book offers a contemporary psychodynamic view of organizational life. Michael Diamond stresses the unconscious dimensions of hierarchic and other work relationships in organizations. From these relationships, he argues, come not only organizational cultures but also organizational identities. The book transcends the common technical rational approach to organizational behavior by isolating and then analyzing the nonrational side of organizational experience. Diamond illustrates how different characteristics of organizational life emerge from the dynamics of shared and projected emotions between leaders and followers, managers and subordinates, and among workers. The author suggests that these complementary unconscious feelings anchor the definition of organizational membership in interpersonal relationships at work. The result is, what he calls, the emotionally grounded structure of organizations--the organizational identity. What distinguishes this book from other psychodynamic approaches to organizations are the following: (1) an up-to-date synthesis of object relations, self psychology, and interpersonal psychoanalysis based primarily but not exclusively on the work of Melanie Klein, Donald Winnicott, Heinz Kohut and Harry Stack Sullivan; (2) a discussion of psychoanalytic organization theory and the application of psychodynamic concepts in organizational behavior; (3) a psychodynamic critique of organizational culture, the structure of values and rituals at work, and the introduction of the structure of organizational emotions, what the author calls organizational identity; (4) a psychoanalytic explanation and typology of regressive behavior in work groups; (5) a discussion and illustration of the role of language and communication in organizational consulting; and (6) a variety of case studies drawn from over ten years of organizational research and consulting. Finally, this book offers the organizational theorist and consultant a variety of psychodynamic tools to apply in understanding and positively changing organizations. This book will be of interest to organizational development consultants, human resource professionals, organizational theorists and researchers, organizational psychologists and psychodynamically oriented social and behavioral scientists, and psychologically informed managers and executives.
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Michael Alan Diamond
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Bachelor, U. Maryland., 1976; Master of Arts, U. Maryland., 1978; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Maryland., 1981.
Career
Assistant professor, U. Missouri, Columbia, 1981-1987; associate professor, U. Missouri, Columbia, 1987-1991; professor, department chairman public administration, U. Missouri, Columbia, since 1991. Organizational consultant for business and government organizations, since 1984. Senior fellow Center Dispute Resolution, U. Missouri School Law, Columbia, since 1989.
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The Unconscious Life of Organizations: Interpreting Organizational Identity
( This book offers a contemporary psychodynamic view of o...)
- The Unconscious Life of Organizations: Interpreting Organizational Identity by Michael A. Diamond (1993-06-30)
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The Unconscious Life of Organizations: Interpreting Organizational Identity
Membership
Member APA, International Society Psychoanalytic Study of Orgns. (founding member, president 1991-1993), International Society Political Psychology, Academy Management, American Political Science Association.
Connections
Married Deborah Beroset, May 29, 1988. Children: Tova Beroset, Simone Beroset.
