"Motivating teams with a psycho-dynamic approach"
This blog, published in the Financial Times, reports on a working paper by Manfred Kets de Vries on the Psychodynamic Approach to leadership studies. Such an approach seeks to understand the hidden factors of effective leadership and in motivating teams.
FInancial Times, 2014
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This book sets out to change people and organisations for the better, by revealing the ‘dark side’ of leadership behaviour and its impact on performance.
Published on 12 Jul, 2006
"Dreams as entry points to executive subconscious"
Dream Journeys: Insights into the Executive Subconscious
Published on 15 May, 2014
"A response to the clinical paradigm"
Manfred Kets de Vries Reflections on Organizational Theory: Interview by Erik van de Loo
This article was written in response to The Clinical Paradigm: Manfred Kets de VriesÂ’ Reflections on Organizational Therapy.
Published on 1 Feb, 2000
Organizational Paradoxes: Clinical Approaches to Management
The objective of this book is to develop a theory of organizational functioning as viewed from a clinical perspective. For that purpose psychoanalytic concepts are applied to the study of leadership behavior, organizational stress, work disorders, career, power, and authority.
Published on 27 Feb, 2009
"Attachment theory applied in an org context"
The Attachment Imperative: The Kiss of the Hedgehog
This working paper explores the evolution and function of attachment in the context of adult relationships.
Published on 18 Apr, 2013
"Overview of the psycho- dynamic approach to leadership study"
This working paper provides an overview of the psychodynamic approach, including historical underminnings, its key concepts, and includes three case studies with which to apply the psychodynamic approach as well as a short self-assessment on leadership archetype.
Published on 19 Jun, 2014
Organizations on the Couch, Perspectives on Organizational Behavior and Change
This book introduces the work of a number of leading scholars interested in the clinical approach to organisational analysis.
Published on 19 Nov, 1991
"Paradigm shift and Manfred Kets de Vries"
Manfred F.R. Kets de Vries: Playing the Morosoph
Manfred Kets de Vries has bought a unique form of humanistic and scientific thinking to the forces of organizational change. This article looks what makes Manfred Kets de Vries “tick?” What “red threads” run through his life? How has his way of thinking contributed to the world? To explore these questions we will use one of his own methodologies and put him, metaphorically, on the psychoanalyst’s couch.
Published on 31 Aug, 2017
"Applying a psycho- dynamic lens to org studies"
Sociology of Leadership in Organizations
A chapter in International Encyclopedia of the Social & Behavioral Sciences, 2nd edition on using a psychpdynamic lens to the study of organisational phenomenon.
Published on 24 Apr, 2015
Life and Death in the Executive Fast Lane: Essays on Irrational Organizations and Their Leaders
This book presents eclectic advice on how things really work in organisations, by combining the dismal science of management and the impossible profession of psychoanalysis.
Published on 16 Aug, 1995
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