Organizational Paradoxes

<p><strong>Tavistock Press</strong> was established as a co-operative venture between the <strong>Tavistock Institute</strong> and <strong>Routledge & Kegan Paul</strong> (RKP) in the 1950s to produce a series of major contributions across the social sciences. <br> This volume is part of a 2001 reissue of a selection of those important works which have since gone out of print, or are difficult to locate. Published by <strong>Routledge,</strong> 112 volumes in total are being brought together under the name <em>The International Behavioural and Social Sciences Library: Classics from the Tavistock Press</em>.<br> Reproduced here in facsimile, this volume was originally published in 1980 and is available individually. The collection is also available in a number of themed mini-sets of between 5 and 13 volumes, or as a complete collection.</p> 1. Introduction; 2. The Oblomov Threat; 3. The Organization of Emptiness; 4. Power and Helplessness; 5. An Alternative View of Power; 6. Leadership and Paranoia; 7. Folie à Deux; 8. The Entrepreneurial Personality; 9. The Mid-Career Crisis: A Renewed Search for Identity; ch0010 Is There Life at Retirement?; 11. Metamorphosis;