{"product_id":"out-of-the-workplace-trap-a-theory-and-therapy-of-organizations-based-on-the-work-of-wilhelm-reich-9798987461402","title":"Out of The Workplace Trap: A Theory and Therapy of Organizations Based on the Work of Wilhelm Reich","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\". . . A BOLD, INNOVATIVE THEORY OF ORGANIZATION AND CONSULTING PRACTICE.\u003c\/strong\u003e\" -Patricia McLagan, CEO, McLagan International, Inc., author of \u003cem\u003eThe Shadow Side of Power\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOut of The Workplace Trap\u003c\/em\u003e is a revolutionary way to understand work and the workplace-both today's and tomorrow's. It addresses how to powerfully help organizations fulfill their potential and help people be and feel more fulfilled at work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBased on years of Organization Development study and practice, this is the first book to apply the pioneering psychiatrist and scientist Wilhelm Reich's energetic understanding of life-of energy flow, blockage and intervention that dissolves the blockages-to understand and improve the life of organizations.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOut of The Workplace Trap\u003c\/em\u003e will help organizational scholars, change consultants, and others seeking further knowledge and capability to address the widespread, entrenched difficulties of organizations as they actually function. Such difficulties commonly consume an organization's inherent energies where its work would otherwise be more naturally effective, robust and humanly fulfilling. The book addresses the roots of toxicity in the workplace and the pervasive problem of human unhappiness at work-then shines a light on the way out for their constructive resolution across an enterprise.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaders will find \"a grand theory\" of organizations and a practical consulting method of intervening to address \u003cem\u003ehow they are blocked, how they became so, and to support their revitalization. \u003c\/em\u003e\n\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eWhile the book does not offer easy answers or a \"cookbook\" of solutions, readers will learn the basis for restoring the fuller functioning of our work institutions and the greater pleasure and achievement people can experience at work, individually and together.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eSix organization character types, ranging from the healthy productive workplace to those that are chronically stuck, are described.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eTheir descriptions include strategic pathways and major techniques for their support and, when conditions permit, for their radical renewal.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe principles are illustrated by numerous case studies and their results drawn from the author's experience, along with other examples from the business and social worlds. \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe book concludes by exploring the relevance this approach holds for rehumanizing work in the network enterprise era and for better understanding the dynamics of wider social change.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Nonlectures Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/12\/2023\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9798987461402\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 514\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.99lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.31d","brand":"Martin Goldberg","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42856492761269,"sku":"9798987461402","price":29.74,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_bc078263-12af-40c2-952f-0cdb6fe7cbed.jpg?v=1683040733","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/out-of-the-workplace-trap-a-theory-and-therapy-of-organizations-based-on-the-work-of-wilhelm-reich-9798987461402","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}