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Incestuous Workplace: Stress and Distress in the Organizational Family

ISBN13: 9781568381541
ISBN10: 1568381549
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In this thoroughly revised, expanded, and updated edition of William L. White's classic Incest in the Organizational Family, the author takes a close, hard look inside today's workplace. He offers a brilliant and powerful indictment of the debilitating consequences of business-as-usual, revealing the incestuous dynamic in which organizational members, isolated from the outside world, increasingly meet their personal, professional, social, and even sexual needs inside the boundary of the organizational family.

White then offers bold and innovative strategies designed to restore the health and vitality of organizations and employees. The Incestuous Workplace works both as an operations guide for sustaining organizational health within environments that are increasingly turbulent and threatening and as a personal survival manual for those who find themselves in destructive work environments.

I strongly recommend this text for all administrators, managers, and supervisors.... I encourage you to read and implement the concepts developed within this book. They are challenging, and they will work for you.

Donald J. Mockenhaupt, L.I.C.S.W., A.C.S.W., Director, Mental Health/Chemical Dependency Division, Ramsey County Human Services Department, St. Paul, Minnesota

This down-to-earth treatise on toxic work environments sounds the alarm to balance the demands of business with the limits of the human condition before more casualties mount.

Marilyn R. Peterson, M.S., Author of At Personal Risk: Boundary Violations in Professional-Client Relationships

Bill White is America's foremost thinker in the area of incest dynamics found in the workplace, and also the source ofthe most creative solutions to this problem.

Gary Schoener, Author and organizational consultant, Executive Director, Walk-In Counseling Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Synopsis:

The resources here will guide you along a pathway of self-assessment, discovery, and fulfillment.

William White reveals the debilitating consequences of business-as-usual in today's workplaces, along with bold and innovative strategies to restore the health and vitality of organizations and employees. This book is both an operations guide for sustaining organizational health and a personal survival manual for those in destructive work environments.

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Avid Reader, March 31, 2007 (view all comments by Avid Reader)
This book is likely to strike a chord with anyone who is in a dysfunctional work environment. For those with a background in social services, you will definitely understand and recognize the parallels drawn between the workplace and families. For those without the social service background, it is a good explanation of the evolution of dysfunction in the workplace. You may not be able to solve the problems at work, but you will definitely understand them better--a step in the right direction. Getting the dysfunctional 'parents' (managers) at work to read and recognize it may be another story.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9781568381541
Subtitle:
Stress and Distress in the Organizational Family
Author:
White, William L.
Publisher:
Hazelden Publishing & Educational Services
Location:
Center City, Minn. :
Subject:
Organizational Behavior
Subject:
Business Life - Health/Stress
Subject:
Burn out (psychology)
Edition Description:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Publication Date:
September 1997
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
336
Dimensions:
8.94x6.12x.81 in. 1.13 lbs.
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