Michael A Diamond
Biographic Data
| ID | 1320754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael A Diamond |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael A |
| FAMILY NAME | Diamond |
| SIGNATURE | DIAMOND M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 134 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Psychoanalytic organisation theory and identity
In this article, the author explains a contemporary framework for psychoanalytic organisation theory and identity. In doing so, he assumes a post-Kleinian object relational approach. This orientation to understanding the complexity of organisations and organising takes advantage of the ideas of Winnicott and Ogden. The notion of organisational identity and the process of identification are viewed from experiential, relational and intersubjective …
Repetition and the Compulsion to Repeat
While individuals productively use repetition to learn and develop new skills and competencies, they also engage in compulsive and counterproductive repetitions. This article makes a contribution to the literature on organizational learning and change by offering an exploration of the human proclivity for repetition and psychosocial phenomenon of the compulsion to repeat. The article links psychoanalytic theory with organization learning and chan…
Harry Levinson (1922–2012)
Harry Levinson died June 27, 2012, in Delray Beach, Florida. He was born on January 16, 1922, in Port Jervis, New York. Levinson was, and remains, one of the premier translators of clinical psychological and psychoanalytic knowledge to the workplace and to organizations. True to his childhood dream, Levinson was a life-long educator (at Menninger's, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among other institutions), but …
Organizational Change and the Analytic Third
Surfacing Perversions of Democracy in the Workplace
Accounting education, research and practice
Recent accounting scandals have brought into question the efficacy of accounting education and research and the relationship of accounting educators to the profession. This paper calls for a comprehensive reassessment of accounting education, especially in terms of: undergraduate accounting programs; the development of an approach to accounting research and scholarship that is more closely focused on impact rather than purely methodological rigor…
The Surface of Organizational Boundaries
Organizational life contains many influences. Among these are its many divisions, sections, departments, professions and groups. The presence of these constituent parts of an organization directs attention to the points at which they connect to each other. Contemporary discussion of the relationship of these parts is confined to exploring organizational boundaries that contain a conceptual concreteness that belies their ultimate experiential sign…
The Cornerstone of Psychoanalytic Organizational Analysis
We start with the premise that organizations are processes of human behavior that are experienced as experiential and perceptual systems governed by unconscious processes. This starting point leads us to discuss psychoanalytically informed organizational perspectives as a means of understanding how psychological reality shapes organizational dynamics. In particular, we argue that psychoanalytic organizational diagnosis requires a central role for…
Embracing Organized Disorder
The future of organizational membership may be in question. New technologies such as ecommerce and wireless internet access, globalization, and atomization, are external factors that will inevitably impact the future of organizations and the meaning of affiliation and employment. This paper is a tiny step in beginning to address this quandary from the perspectives of chaos, complexity, and psychoanalytic theories
The Psychodynamics of Ethical behavior in Organizations
There are many aspects of organizational life-ethics prominent among them-in which things, and particularly behavior, are not what they seem. A psychodynamic approach to these apparent paradoxes helps greatly in shedding light on these areas. Much as a psycho-dynamic approach to organizational analysis has helped us see many aspects of organizational life that were less visible, so too can this approach aid us in understanding what fosters ethica…
Administrative Assault
In this article, the author offers a psychoanalytic perspective of violence and aggression in the workplace. With particular focus on public sector organizations, such as the postal service, the author submits that shame and injustice are at the emotional core of the problem. Following a statistical summary of violence in the workplace and an overview of the social and behavioral science research, the author provides a psychodynamic schema for an…
The Unconscious Life of Organizations
The Unconscious Life of Organizations
Introduction Theory Psychoanalytic Organization Theory Ritualistic Organizational Defenses and the Self-System The Psychodynamics of Organizational Culture Organizational Identity Individual and Group Regression in the Workplace The Psychodynamics of Language and Communication in Organizational Consultations Practice Shame Anxiety and Intimidation at Work A Public Agency Copes with Transition and Expansion The Impact of Conflict Avoidance on Orga…
Hobbesian and Rousseauian Identities
The primary argument in this article is that the ability of any public organization to withstand the storms of political pressure and change stems from the character of leader-follower relations. Ultimately, the personal, political, and ethical integrity of public administrators depends on the degree of organizational resilience of public agencies. This resilience relies on the effective leadership of change. To enhance and clarify this perspecti…
Treating the Parataxic Organization
This article explores the psychodynamics of language and communication in organizational change efforts. The author presents a case example of an intervention from his consulting work that describes the linkages among dialectic skills, childhood development, unconscious interpersonal and group phenomena, and he consultant's use of language. The author suggests that the participants' adroitness in communicating emotions in a group setting is a cru…
Dimensions of Organizational Culture and beyond
Organization theorists and psychologists are focusing their attention on organizational culture. Similar to political psychologists, organizational analysts concentrate on leadership and group dynamics. Organization psychologists like Edgar Schein (1985) claim, for example, that leaders are in the business of creating and managing cultures within institutions, and that groups are the site of the development, containment, or destruction of culture…
Some reflections on control as a central notion in social and behavioral studies
The Invisible Bureaucracy
In Memoriam
Organizational Identity
Organizational identity offers a theory and practice for analyzing the intersubjective meaning of organizational behavior. It advances an explanation of individual feelings about organizations rooted in infancy, what Winnicott (1965) calls a "holding environment," and an explanation of interpersonal relationships in adulthood but with origins in infancy and childhood, what Kohut (1977; 1984) calls "selfobject transferences. "It further presents t…
The Psychodynamics of Regression in Work Groups
Individual regression in groups stems from anxiety arising from each individual's attempt to construct a psychodynamic equilibrium between one's demands for adequate self-identity (individuality that is not a threat to other group members) and group membership (affiliation that is not a threat to one's identity). The dilemma of reconciling needs for individuality and group membership provokes annihilation anxiety in which one resorts to regressiv…
Political Ensembles
Role Formation as Defensive Activity in Bureaucratic Organizations
Liens psychodynamiques entre la structure et les processus bureaucratiques, le stress et les roles dans l'organisation. On applique ici une grille psychanalytique pour eclairer le mecanisme de l'utilisation inconsciente de la structure sociale en tant que defense contre l'angoisse par les candidats au leadership
Psychological Responses to Stress in Complex Organizations
Appreciation for irrational individual and organizational characteristics is fundamental to the ability to "enter"and comprehend the true significance of interpersonal and organizational behavior. Efforts to better comprehend human performance in complex bureaucratic organizations must acknowledge the impact of irrational psychological defensiveness on administrative behavior. The authors construct a conceptual model of psychological responses to…
The Social Character of Bureaucracy
Bureaucracy as Externalized Self-System
In this article the author uses Harry Stack Sullivan's theory of social psychiatry and various psychoanalytic applications of organizational theory to suggest to what extent bureaucratized human relations and formal organizational stuctures are products of the psyche and thereby perpetuated by people. A central theme is that bureaucracy enhances the structural manifestation of embedded defensive operations of the person. Asserting the dominance o…
The Unconscious Life of Organizations
Introduction Theory Psychoanalytic Organization Theory Ritualistic Organizational Defenses and the Self-System The Psychodynamics of Organizational Culture Organizational Identity Individual and Group Regression in the Workplace The Psychodynamics of Language and Communication in Organizational Consultations Practice Shame Anxiety and Intimidation at Work A Public Agency Copes with Transition and Expansion The Impact of Conflict Avoidance on Orga…
The Social Character of Bureaucracy
Organizational Identity
Organizational identity offers a theory and practice for analyzing the intersubjective meaning of organizational behavior. It advances an explanation of individual feelings about organizations rooted in infancy, what Winnicott (1965) calls a "holding environment," and an explanation of interpersonal relationships in adulthood but with origins in infancy and childhood, what Kohut (1977; 1984) calls "selfobject transferences. "It further presents t…
The Cornerstone of Psychoanalytic Organizational Analysis
We start with the premise that organizations are processes of human behavior that are experienced as experiential and perceptual systems governed by unconscious processes. This starting point leads us to discuss psychoanalytically informed organizational perspectives as a means of understanding how psychological reality shapes organizational dynamics. In particular, we argue that psychoanalytic organizational diagnosis requires a central role for…
The Psychodynamics of Regression in Work Groups
Individual regression in groups stems from anxiety arising from each individual's attempt to construct a psychodynamic equilibrium between one's demands for adequate self-identity (individuality that is not a threat to other group members) and group membership (affiliation that is not a threat to one's identity). The dilemma of reconciling needs for individuality and group membership provokes annihilation anxiety in which one resorts to regressiv…
The Surface of Organizational Boundaries
Organizational life contains many influences. Among these are its many divisions, sections, departments, professions and groups. The presence of these constituent parts of an organization directs attention to the points at which they connect to each other. Contemporary discussion of the relationship of these parts is confined to exploring organizational boundaries that contain a conceptual concreteness that belies their ultimate experiential sign…
Administrative Assault
In this article, the author offers a psychoanalytic perspective of violence and aggression in the workplace. With particular focus on public sector organizations, such as the postal service, the author submits that shame and injustice are at the emotional core of the problem. Following a statistical summary of violence in the workplace and an overview of the social and behavioral science research, the author provides a psychodynamic schema for an…
Organizational Change and the Analytic Third
Role Formation as Defensive Activity in Bureaucratic Organizations
Liens psychodynamiques entre la structure et les processus bureaucratiques, le stress et les roles dans l'organisation. On applique ici une grille psychanalytique pour eclairer le mecanisme de l'utilisation inconsciente de la structure sociale en tant que defense contre l'angoisse par les candidats au leadership
Dimensions of Organizational Culture and beyond
Organization theorists and psychologists are focusing their attention on organizational culture. Similar to political psychologists, organizational analysts concentrate on leadership and group dynamics. Organization psychologists like Edgar Schein (1985) claim, for example, that leaders are in the business of creating and managing cultures within institutions, and that groups are the site of the development, containment, or destruction of culture…
The Invisible Bureaucracy
Psychological Responses to Stress in Complex Organizations
Appreciation for irrational individual and organizational characteristics is fundamental to the ability to "enter"and comprehend the true significance of interpersonal and organizational behavior. Efforts to better comprehend human performance in complex bureaucratic organizations must acknowledge the impact of irrational psychological defensiveness on administrative behavior. The authors construct a conceptual model of psychological responses to…
Psychoanalytic organisation theory and identity
In this article, the author explains a contemporary framework for psychoanalytic organisation theory and identity. In doing so, he assumes a post-Kleinian object relational approach. This orientation to understanding the complexity of organisations and organising takes advantage of the ideas of Winnicott and Ogden. The notion of organisational identity and the process of identification are viewed from experiential, relational and intersubjective …
Treating the Parataxic Organization
This article explores the psychodynamics of language and communication in organizational change efforts. The author presents a case example of an intervention from his consulting work that describes the linkages among dialectic skills, childhood development, unconscious interpersonal and group phenomena, and he consultant's use of language. The author suggests that the participants' adroitness in communicating emotions in a group setting is a cru…
Embracing Organized Disorder
The future of organizational membership may be in question. New technologies such as ecommerce and wireless internet access, globalization, and atomization, are external factors that will inevitably impact the future of organizations and the meaning of affiliation and employment. This paper is a tiny step in beginning to address this quandary from the perspectives of chaos, complexity, and psychoanalytic theories
Political Ensembles
The Psychodynamics of Ethical behavior in Organizations
There are many aspects of organizational life-ethics prominent among them-in which things, and particularly behavior, are not what they seem. A psychodynamic approach to these apparent paradoxes helps greatly in shedding light on these areas. Much as a psycho-dynamic approach to organizational analysis has helped us see many aspects of organizational life that were less visible, so too can this approach aid us in understanding what fosters ethica…
Some reflections on control as a central notion in social and behavioral studies
Bureaucracy as Externalized Self-System
In this article the author uses Harry Stack Sullivan's theory of social psychiatry and various psychoanalytic applications of organizational theory to suggest to what extent bureaucratized human relations and formal organizational stuctures are products of the psyche and thereby perpetuated by people. A central theme is that bureaucracy enhances the structural manifestation of embedded defensive operations of the person. Asserting the dominance o…
Psychological Responses to Stress in Complex Organizations
Appreciation for irrational individual and organizational characteristics is fundamental to the ability to "enter"and comprehend the true significance of interpersonal and organizational behavior. Efforts to better comprehend human performance in complex bureaucratic organizations must acknowledge the impact of irrational psychological defensiveness on administrative behavior. The authors construct a conceptual model of psychological responses to…
The Social Character of Bureaucracy
Political Ensembles
Role Formation as Defensive Activity in Bureaucratic Organizations
Liens psychodynamiques entre la structure et les processus bureaucratiques, le stress et les roles dans l'organisation. On applique ici une grille psychanalytique pour eclairer le mecanisme de l'utilisation inconsciente de la structure sociale en tant que defense contre l'angoisse par les candidats au leadership
The Psychodynamics of Regression in Work Groups
Individual regression in groups stems from anxiety arising from each individual's attempt to construct a psychodynamic equilibrium between one's demands for adequate self-identity (individuality that is not a threat to other group members) and group membership (affiliation that is not a threat to one's identity). The dilemma of reconciling needs for individuality and group membership provokes annihilation anxiety in which one resorts to regressiv…
In Memoriam
Organizational Identity
Organizational identity offers a theory and practice for analyzing the intersubjective meaning of organizational behavior. It advances an explanation of individual feelings about organizations rooted in infancy, what Winnicott (1965) calls a "holding environment," and an explanation of interpersonal relationships in adulthood but with origins in infancy and childhood, what Kohut (1977; 1984) calls "selfobject transferences. "It further presents t…
The Invisible Bureaucracy
Some reflections on control as a central notion in social and behavioral studies
Dimensions of Organizational Culture and beyond
Organization theorists and psychologists are focusing their attention on organizational culture. Similar to political psychologists, organizational analysts concentrate on leadership and group dynamics. Organization psychologists like Edgar Schein (1985) claim, for example, that leaders are in the business of creating and managing cultures within institutions, and that groups are the site of the development, containment, or destruction of culture…
Hobbesian and Rousseauian Identities
The primary argument in this article is that the ability of any public organization to withstand the storms of political pressure and change stems from the character of leader-follower relations. Ultimately, the personal, political, and ethical integrity of public administrators depends on the degree of organizational resilience of public agencies. This resilience relies on the effective leadership of change. To enhance and clarify this perspecti…
Treating the Parataxic Organization
This article explores the psychodynamics of language and communication in organizational change efforts. The author presents a case example of an intervention from his consulting work that describes the linkages among dialectic skills, childhood development, unconscious interpersonal and group phenomena, and he consultant's use of language. The author suggests that the participants' adroitness in communicating emotions in a group setting is a cru…
The Unconscious Life of Organizations
Introduction Theory Psychoanalytic Organization Theory Ritualistic Organizational Defenses and the Self-System The Psychodynamics of Organizational Culture Organizational Identity Individual and Group Regression in the Workplace The Psychodynamics of Language and Communication in Organizational Consultations Practice Shame Anxiety and Intimidation at Work A Public Agency Copes with Transition and Expansion The Impact of Conflict Avoidance on Orga…
Administrative Assault
In this article, the author offers a psychoanalytic perspective of violence and aggression in the workplace. With particular focus on public sector organizations, such as the postal service, the author submits that shame and injustice are at the emotional core of the problem. Following a statistical summary of violence in the workplace and an overview of the social and behavioral science research, the author provides a psychodynamic schema for an…
The Unconscious Life of Organizations
Embracing Organized Disorder
The future of organizational membership may be in question. New technologies such as ecommerce and wireless internet access, globalization, and atomization, are external factors that will inevitably impact the future of organizations and the meaning of affiliation and employment. This paper is a tiny step in beginning to address this quandary from the perspectives of chaos, complexity, and psychoanalytic theories
The Psychodynamics of Ethical behavior in Organizations
There are many aspects of organizational life-ethics prominent among them-in which things, and particularly behavior, are not what they seem. A psychodynamic approach to these apparent paradoxes helps greatly in shedding light on these areas. Much as a psycho-dynamic approach to organizational analysis has helped us see many aspects of organizational life that were less visible, so too can this approach aid us in understanding what fosters ethica…
The Cornerstone of Psychoanalytic Organizational Analysis
We start with the premise that organizations are processes of human behavior that are experienced as experiential and perceptual systems governed by unconscious processes. This starting point leads us to discuss psychoanalytically informed organizational perspectives as a means of understanding how psychological reality shapes organizational dynamics. In particular, we argue that psychoanalytic organizational diagnosis requires a central role for…
The Surface of Organizational Boundaries
Organizational life contains many influences. Among these are its many divisions, sections, departments, professions and groups. The presence of these constituent parts of an organization directs attention to the points at which they connect to each other. Contemporary discussion of the relationship of these parts is confined to exploring organizational boundaries that contain a conceptual concreteness that belies their ultimate experiential sign…
Accounting education, research and practice
Recent accounting scandals have brought into question the efficacy of accounting education and research and the relationship of accounting educators to the profession. This paper calls for a comprehensive reassessment of accounting education, especially in terms of: undergraduate accounting programs; the development of an approach to accounting research and scholarship that is more closely focused on impact rather than purely methodological rigor…
Surfacing Perversions of Democracy in the Workplace
Organizational Change and the Analytic Third
Harry Levinson (1922–2012)
Harry Levinson died June 27, 2012, in Delray Beach, Florida. He was born on January 16, 1922, in Port Jervis, New York. Levinson was, and remains, one of the premier translators of clinical psychological and psychoanalytic knowledge to the workplace and to organizations. True to his childhood dream, Levinson was a life-long educator (at Menninger's, Harvard University, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, among other institutions), but …
Repetition and the Compulsion to Repeat
While individuals productively use repetition to learn and develop new skills and competencies, they also engage in compulsive and counterproductive repetitions. This article makes a contribution to the literature on organizational learning and change by offering an exploration of the human proclivity for repetition and psychosocial phenomenon of the compulsion to repeat. The article links psychoanalytic theory with organization learning and chan…
Psychology (24 works) · Social Psychology (21 works) · Social Psychology (18 works) · Political science (17 works) · Sociology (17 works) · Psychoanalysis (15 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (13 works) · Epistemology (10 works) · Law (10 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (10 works)