The addictive organization
https://archives.anglican.ca/link/catalog6417
- Author
- Schaef, Anne Wilson
- Publication Date
- c1988
- Material Type
- Book
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries
- Call Number
- HD 58.7 S29 1988
- Author
- Schaef, Anne Wilson
- Place of Publication
- San Francisco CA
- Publisher
- Harper and Row
- Publication Date
- c1988
- Physical Description
- [viii], 232 p. ; 21.5 x 14.2 cm.
- Material Type
- Book
- Notes
- "[By] Anne Wilson Schaef and Diane Fassel".
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- "An important sequel to Anne Wilson Schaef's bestseller 'When Society Becomes an Addict', this brilliant analysis deals specifically with dysfunctional addictive systems in business or in any other group endeavour -- revealing how the addictive system operates, how to recognize it, and how to begin the recovery process. [This book] describes the organizations that define our society, showing how managers, workers, and members exhibit the classic symptoms of addiction: denying and avoiding the problem, assuming there is no other way to act, and manipulating events to maintain the status quo". -- inside front dust jacket blurb.
- Contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction: A Missing Piece -- I: The Origins of an Idea -- II: The Addictive System: Terms and Characteristics -- III: The Four Major Forms of Addiction in Organizations -- 1. Organizations in Which a Key Person Is an Addict -- 2. Taking Your Disease with You into the Organization, or the Reality of Replication -- 4. The Organization as an Addict -- IV: Recovery in the Addictive Organization -- V: Implications and Conclusions -- 1. What Are the Implications If Organizations Continue to Function Addictively ? -- 2. When Organizations Begin to Recover and Make a System Shift -- Appendix: The Twelve Steps of AA -- Notes.
- Co-author Diane Fassel produced a report (the Fassel Report) for the World Mission Dept of General Synod in June 1985. The report was commissioned at the end if 1984 as a result of strains in the working relationships of staff in World Mission. Further information about the Fassel Report may be found in World Mission and PWRDF records.
- Added Entry
- Fassel, Diane
- ISBN
- 0-06-254841-7
- Call Number
- HD 58.7 S29 1988
- Location
- U. of T. Libraries