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The Systemic Thinking and Practice Series: Work with Organizations

14 Series Titles


Working Systemically with Refugee Couples and Families Exploring Trauma, Resilience and Culture

Working Systemically with Refugee Couples and Families: Exploring Trauma, Resilience and Culture

1st Edition

By Shadi Shahnavaz
September 30, 2022

This stirring and insightful book explores how family dynamics among refugees are affected by the trauma of forced migration. Written by an experienced family therapist, it uses a systemic perspective to understand the impact on couple relationships and parenting, as well as the broader issue of ...

Family Dramas Intimacy, Power and Systems in Shakespeare's Tragedies

Family Dramas: Intimacy, Power and Systems in Shakespeare's Tragedies

1st Edition

By Gwyn Daniel
November 29, 2018

Most of Shakespeare’s tragedies have a family drama at their heart. This book brings these relationships to life, offering a radical new perspective on the tragic heroes and their dilemmas. Family Dramas: Intimacy, Power and Systems in Shakespeare's Tragedies focusses on the interactions and ...

Leading at All Levels Using Systemic Ideas to Get the Most from the Workplace

Leading at All Levels: Using Systemic Ideas to Get the Most from the Workplace

1st Edition

By Annette MacArtain-Kerr
July 31, 2018

Leading at All Levels: Using Systemic Ideas to Get the Most from the Workplace moves away from traditional perspectives on leadership and, utilising ideas from systemic consultation, provides a rationale for leadership at all levels, emphasising the potential of everyone in organisations to lead in...

Organizations Connected A Handbook of Systemic Consultation

Organizations Connected: A Handbook of Systemic Consultation

1st Edition

Edited By David Campbell, Clare Huffington
December 31, 2008

This book shows the underlying thinking of experienced consultants deciding how to position themselves in organizations, seeking to enable organizational change to occur and redefining their relationships with their clients over time and according to organizational need using a systemic lens....

Taking Positions in the Organization

Taking Positions in the Organization

1st Edition

By David Campbell, Marianne Groenbeck
December 31, 2006

This book on social constructionist thinking addresses the manager's job for creating reflective space for people to observe themselves and others. It explores broad societal and organizational discourses that offer positions from day-to-day realities that govern behaviour are constructed....

Reflexive Inquiry A Framework for Consultancy Practice

Reflexive Inquiry: A Framework for Consultancy Practice

1st Edition

By Christine Oliver
December 31, 2005

This book sets out to explain how the reflexive inquiry model can be adapted to research so that consultants can continue to evaluate their work and learn from the process. It draws out some implications of the principles, arguments, models, and tools presented for undertaking research....

Changing Organizations Clinicians as Agents of Change

Changing Organizations: Clinicians as Agents of Change

1st Edition

By Alan Cooklin
December 31, 2000

This work provides a rich mine of ideas to stimulate thinking about organisational interaction, and organisations in relation to various socio/cultural values....

Systems and Meaning Consulting in Organizations

Systems and Meaning: Consulting in Organizations

1st Edition

By Gitte Haslebo, Kit Sanne Nielsen
December 31, 2000

This book looks at organisational problems occurring in a particular context, and clearly traces the way problems arise out of relations amongst the different parts of the larger system. It also pursues the meanings that these problems have for individuals and organisations alike. The authors, who ...

The Socially Constructed Organization

The Socially Constructed Organization

1st Edition

By David Campbell
December 31, 2000

This book presents the dynamics of organisations from a social constructionist viewpoint, taking the organisation as something that is constructed continuously through individual interactions with others, both within and without the organisation....

Learning Consultation A Systemic Framework

Learning Consultation: A Systemic Framework

1st Edition

By David Campbell
December 31, 1995

A book which will illuminate the learning process from the perspective of the teacher as well as the learner. The experiences of the various contributors will empower the reader to take more personal risks in their own learning....

Systemic Work with Organizations A New Model for Managers and Change Agents

Systemic Work with Organizations: A New Model for Managers and Change Agents

1st Edition

By David Campbell, Tim Coldicott, Keith Kinsella
December 31, 1994

Systemic Work with Organizations explores a powerful new perspective on the challenges faced by managers and consultants who work in large organizations. Building on principles and methods originally developed in the family arena, the authors show how an emphasis on connection, context and ...

Systems Thinking for Harassed Managers

Systems Thinking for Harassed Managers

1st Edition

By Nano McCaughan, Barry Palmer
December 31, 1994

This book describes the processes that shape organisational life and shows how managers can work together to help one another to work out their problems and develop their skills. The authors draw on their experiences of working with managers and in the group relations field....

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