Exploring Individual and Organizational Boundaries

<p>One way of conceptualizing the relationship of individuals through their roles to their various groupings (such as families communities and business and industrial enterprises) is to consider their political relatedness. This includes an exploration of organizational structures management and issues of responsibility leadership and authority. Beyond this the Tavistock open systems approach has always held that unconscious social processes are of central importance in such explorations. The methodology of the approach therefore is one that encourages people to consider the unconscious in relation to the political dimensions of institutions This involves people in examine a range of boundaries such as those between the inner and outer worlds of the individual between person and role and between enterprise and environment. Also involved are less obvious boundaries - or limits or distinctions - such as those between certainty and uncertainty order and chaos innovation and destructiveness reality and fantasy and relationship and relatedness. </p>