Shadow Working in Project Management

Understanding and Addressing the Irrational and Unconscious in Groups
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-367-66769-6
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 216 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 231 mm, Gewicht: 337 g

Reihe: Complexity and Interdisciplinarity in Project Management

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.

Zielgruppe

Professional

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bertholo, Joana

Bértholo, Joana

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Bereichsspezifisches Management Personalwesen, Human Resource Management
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Projektmanagement
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Organisationstheorie, Organisationssoziologie, Organisationspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Psychoanalyse (C.G. Jung)
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Wirtschafts-, Arbeits- und Organisationspsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.