Shadow Working in Project Management

Understanding and Addressing the Irrational and Unconscious in Groups

Joana Bértholo (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

216 Seiten

2017
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-138-08012-6 (ISBN)

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Shadow Working in Project Management aims at contributing to our knowledge of all things unconscious and irrational in our behaviour. It takes the form of an empirical research, and therefore addresses mostly the tools and techniques available to get in touch with Shadow aspects of self and collective, to recognize how it manifests, how it can lead to conflict, and ways to address it.

From that perspective, it advances on to question the underlying beliefs of current management practices. It explores as well the inherent need for control in projects, being those of a professional nature, or other ventures. It challenges the strength of the concept of the "rational man" and its protagonism.

Joana Bértholo’s work explores the role and nature of the Shadow in the context of projects and their management, with an emphasis on techniques to address it. Despite being directed to managers and dedicated to the analyses of the managerial discourse, the tools and processes it proposes have universal relevance, based on the fact that the Shadow is everywhere, within everyone, from the individual to the global scale.

Joana Bértholo is a researcher, novelist and playwright. She first attended the Fine-Arts and later a PhD in Cultural Studies. Art processes are her preferred mode of research, using writing as a platform to investigate on a wide scope of interests, such as technology, sustainability, and the darker aspects of groups and community.

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Professor Dr Louis Klein

PART ONE: THE LEARNING JOURNEY

Introduction

Chapter 1 – The Learning Journey

PART TWO: THE SHADOW OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT

Chapter 2 – The Shadow of Management Studies – A Literature Review

Chapter 3 – The Shadow of Project Management

Chapter 4 – Integrating the Shadow of Project Management

PART THREE – CONCLUSIVE THOUGHTS

Chapter 5 – Main Shadow-spheres found in project management culture

Chapter 6 – Account on a personal crisis: was Shadow-work worth the hard-work?

Chapter 7 – Conclusive thoughts

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	12.08.2017
Reihe/Serie	Complexity and Interdisciplinarity in Project Management
Zusatzinfo	2 Tables, black and white; 14 Line drawings, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	449 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Psychologie ► Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Humanbiologie
	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Zoologie
	Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Projektmanagement
ISBN-10	1-138-08012-8 / 1138080128
ISBN-13	978-1-138-08012-6 / 9781138080126
Zustand	Neuware