Individuals, Groups and Organizations Beneath the Surface: An Introduction

by Lionel F. Stapley

This volume is an introductory text to the individual and organizational dynamics by an author with extensive experience in the field. It examines the unconscious processes of human behaviour that affect all organizations and institutions. It is aimed at those who are currently employed as managers or consultants, students of management, and others with the opportunity to develop knowledge skills and ability in an area of organizational behaviour, which has been largely inaccessible to the majority.

274 pages, Paperback

First published November 10, 2005

Reviews

[Derek Baldwin · Rating 3 out of 5]

Lots of interesting material, relatively little of which was new to me, but this book is terribly flawed: it is horribly flabby and repetitive. Often within the same paragraph the text loops around then back again and then back yet again... it is very poorly structured, has remarkably few signposts to help orient the reader, and it really felt to me like I was being harangued.

The arguments are frequently quite weak and though some of the examples are helpful and throw light on the subject, a hell of a lot of them do not.

Apart from copious mentions of Freud there are hardly any references to other writers, and no citations at all that I can recall. By no means a waste of time but a frustrating experience which you might want to steer away from.