Larry Hirschhorn
Biographic Data
| ID | 298288 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Larry Hirschhorn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Larry |
| FAMILY NAME | Hirschhorn |
| SIGNATURE | HIRSCHHORN L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University City Science Center |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 27 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
The Challenge of Integrating Psychodynamic and Organizational Theory
L'objectif de ce numero est d'apporter une contribution a l'analyse theorique et a l'intervention de conseil aux situations organisationnelles psychologiquement difficiles. Des approches synthetiques entre la psychodynamique des individus, des groupes et des organisations, et les theories organisationnelles sont presentees avec des etudes de cas. Cet article montre la genese d'une telle integration notamment a partir des systemes sociotechniques …
The Primary Risk
In the Tavistock tradition, we understand an organization by first identifying its primary task. We ask, what is this organization set up to do, how is it organized to accomplish this objective, and what unconscious dynamics limit or distort its members' ability to do their work? This approach while powerful, does not help us understand organizations that live at strategic junctures in their life cycles. In these situations, the task is to choose…
Reworking Authority
For many companies, the past decade has been marked by a sense of turbulence and redefinition. The growing role of information technologies and service businesses has prompted companies to reconsider how they are structured and even what business they are in. These changes have also affected how people work, what skills they need, and what kind of careers they expect. One critical change in how people work, argues Larry Hirschhorn, is that they a…
Blindsided by the Elephant
The Invisible Bureaucracy
The Workplace within
The Workplace Within
In this revealing study, Larry Hirschhorn examines the rituals, or social defenses, organizations develop to cope with change. Using extended ease studies from offices, factories, and social services, he describes why these often irrational practices that fragment and injure individuals within the workplace exist, how they operate, and how they can be reshaped to enhance people's work experience.
The Workplace Within
In this revealing study, Larry Hirschhorn examines the rituals, or social defenses, organizations develop to cope with change. Using extended ease studies from offices, factories, and social services, he describes why these often irrational practices that fragment and injure individuals within the workplace exist, how they operate, and how they can be reshaped to enhance people's work experience
Beyond mechanization
Unconscious Planning in a Natural Work Group
Gustafson and Cooper have developed a theory of "unconscious group planning" based on the work of Weiss and Sampson. Up to now they have used and developed the theory to clarify and modify the practice and study of Tavistock Self-Study Groups. The authors believe that the theory can be applied to natural work groups as well. They examine the protocol of a day's meeting of the management team of a social service organization. By examining the late…
The Post–Industrial Labor Process
Introduction to Block and Hirschhorn Articles
Post-industrial life
New productive forces and the contradictions of contemporary capitalism
Social Policy and the Life Cycle
Social policy theory is stalemated because of its abstracted and reified thinking. We must rediscover the contents of social life by examining the work-family system in a developmental perspective. Demographic data point to a more varied household composition today based on a greater number of transitions in life states for individuals. Work data point to the decline of the full-time, lifetime job or career. Together these two sets of data sugges…
The Challenge of Integrating Psychodynamic and Organizational Theory
L'objectif de ce numero est d'apporter une contribution a l'analyse theorique et a l'intervention de conseil aux situations organisationnelles psychologiquement difficiles. Des approches synthetiques entre la psychodynamique des individus, des groupes et des organisations, et les theories organisationnelles sont presentees avec des etudes de cas. Cet article montre la genese d'une telle integration notamment a partir des systemes sociotechniques …
The Primary Risk
In the Tavistock tradition, we understand an organization by first identifying its primary task. We ask, what is this organization set up to do, how is it organized to accomplish this objective, and what unconscious dynamics limit or distort its members' ability to do their work? This approach while powerful, does not help us understand organizations that live at strategic junctures in their life cycles. In these situations, the task is to choose…
The Invisible Bureaucracy
New productive forces and the contradictions of contemporary capitalism
The Post–Industrial Labor Process
Unconscious Planning in a Natural Work Group
Gustafson and Cooper have developed a theory of "unconscious group planning" based on the work of Weiss and Sampson. Up to now they have used and developed the theory to clarify and modify the practice and study of Tavistock Self-Study Groups. The authors believe that the theory can be applied to natural work groups as well. They examine the protocol of a day's meeting of the management team of a social service organization. By examining the late…
Introduction to Block and Hirschhorn Articles
Social Policy and the Life Cycle
Social policy theory is stalemated because of its abstracted and reified thinking. We must rediscover the contents of social life by examining the work-family system in a developmental perspective. Demographic data point to a more varied household composition today based on a greater number of transitions in life states for individuals. Work data point to the decline of the full-time, lifetime job or career. Together these two sets of data sugges…
Social Policy and the Life Cycle
Social policy theory is stalemated because of its abstracted and reified thinking. We must rediscover the contents of social life by examining the work-family system in a developmental perspective. Demographic data point to a more varied household composition today based on a greater number of transitions in life states for individuals. Work data point to the decline of the full-time, lifetime job or career. Together these two sets of data sugges…
Post-industrial life
New productive forces and the contradictions of contemporary capitalism
The Post–Industrial Labor Process
Introduction to Block and Hirschhorn Articles
Unconscious Planning in a Natural Work Group
Gustafson and Cooper have developed a theory of "unconscious group planning" based on the work of Weiss and Sampson. Up to now they have used and developed the theory to clarify and modify the practice and study of Tavistock Self-Study Groups. The authors believe that the theory can be applied to natural work groups as well. They examine the protocol of a day's meeting of the management team of a social service organization. By examining the late…
Beyond mechanization
The Workplace Within
In this revealing study, Larry Hirschhorn examines the rituals, or social defenses, organizations develop to cope with change. Using extended ease studies from offices, factories, and social services, he describes why these often irrational practices that fragment and injure individuals within the workplace exist, how they operate, and how they can be reshaped to enhance people's work experience.
The Workplace Within
In this revealing study, Larry Hirschhorn examines the rituals, or social defenses, organizations develop to cope with change. Using extended ease studies from offices, factories, and social services, he describes why these often irrational practices that fragment and injure individuals within the workplace exist, how they operate, and how they can be reshaped to enhance people's work experience
The Invisible Bureaucracy
The Workplace within
Blindsided by the Elephant
Reworking Authority
For many companies, the past decade has been marked by a sense of turbulence and redefinition. The growing role of information technologies and service businesses has prompted companies to reconsider how they are structured and even what business they are in. These changes have also affected how people work, what skills they need, and what kind of careers they expect. One critical change in how people work, argues Larry Hirschhorn, is that they a…
The Challenge of Integrating Psychodynamic and Organizational Theory
L'objectif de ce numero est d'apporter une contribution a l'analyse theorique et a l'intervention de conseil aux situations organisationnelles psychologiquement difficiles. Des approches synthetiques entre la psychodynamique des individus, des groupes et des organisations, et les theories organisationnelles sont presentees avec des etudes de cas. Cet article montre la genese d'une telle integration notamment a partir des systemes sociotechniques …
The Primary Risk
In the Tavistock tradition, we understand an organization by first identifying its primary task. We ask, what is this organization set up to do, how is it organized to accomplish this objective, and what unconscious dynamics limit or distort its members' ability to do their work? This approach while powerful, does not help us understand organizations that live at strategic junctures in their life cycles. In these situations, the task is to choose…
Psychology (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Social Psychology (6 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Psychoanalysis (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Political science (4 works) · Psychodynamics (4 works) · Social Psychology (4 works) · Economics (3 works)