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Post by Hadrian Micciche on Sept 29, 2013 23:55:34 GMT -8
KBOO Insiders Admit Being Part of An Incestuous Organization
They haven't -- but they should. Incestuous Workplace: Stress and Distress in the Organizational Familyby William L. White M.A. "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."
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Post by LulzBot on Sept 30, 2013 15:15:28 GMT -8
KBOO Insiders Admit Being Part of An Incestuous Organization
They haven't -- but they should. Incestuous Workplace: Stress and Distress in the Organizational Familyby William L. White M.A. "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." Not bad as an alternative narrative to the cult diagnosis, but it describes functioning workplaces with dysfunctional internal relationship. Sure they would be more functional without the incest bs, but because they can successfully do business as is they have no motive to change. OTOH in cultlike orgs there is low functioning both interpersonal and professionally because any results are either from exploiting members, or deceptive or illegal methods of operation. One could become the other or visaversa, but imo there is a difference. Another way to put it is one can be saved, because it's business practices are based in reality and they haven't cannibalized their resources or gotten into(too much) legal hot water. The other, by definition, is doomed.
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