Personality and Performance Foundations for

A critique of the popular view that if managers can understand their colleagues' personalities, they can manage them more effectively. The authors offer an alternative viewthat the purpose of psychology is to enable working people to gain insight into and mastery of themselves. To achieve this requires new foundations for managerial psychology based on purpose, choice and responsibility.

Preface

8

(2)

Introduction

10

(10)

Psychoanalysis

20

(26)

A Home for Homeless Thoughts

20

(8)

Freud under Analysis

28

(5)

Defence Mechanisms

33

(9)

The Value of Psychoanalysis

42

(4)

Motivation

46

(25)

Maslow's Hierarchy of Problems

47

(4)

Psychological Needs and Culture

51

(5)

Achieving -- American Style

56

(7)

Motives, Motivation and Motion

63

(8)

Authoritarianism

71

(25)

Personality and Intelligence

71

(3)

A Western in Black and White

74

(10)

Authority and Authoritarianism

84

(9)

Existentialism

93

(3)

Social Science

96

(24)

The Empiricist Challenge

96

(6)

Durkheim's Society

102

(5)

Functionalism and Structuralism

107

(6)

Leadership and Crowd Behaviour

113

(7)

Behaviourism

120

(25)

Pavlov's Dogs

121

(9)

Skinner's Pigeons

130

(4)

Conditioning or Pattern Perception?

134

(4)

'Behaviorism' as the Bottom Line

138

(7)

Social Psychology

145

(28)

Mead: `I' and `Me'

145

(10)

The Human Group

155

(10)

Social Constructionists

165

(4)

Personality as Axiom

169

(4)

Group Dynamics

173

(26)

Lewinian Experiments

173

(11)

Conformity or Cunning?

184

(4)

Obeying with a Wink

188

(6)

Experimenting and Deceiving

194

(5)

A Psychology of Action

199

(24)

Action and Movement

199

(6)

Combinations of Actions

205

(6)

Consciousness and Responsibility

211

(4)

Personality Development

215

(8)

Madness and Creativity

223

(23)

Neurosis and Psychosis

224

(4)

What is Normal?

228

(3)

Madness and Justice

231

(8)

Creative Madness

239

(7)

Rethinking Managerial Psychology

246

(26)

Struggle for Identity

246

(4)

Psychological Perspectives

250

(16)

Purposive Psychology

266

(3)

A Way Forward

269

(3)

Notes

272

(2)

References

274

(4)

Index

278

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Personality and Performance Foundations for Managerial Psychology

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