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Concept diagram

Submitted by WorkCreatively on Tue, 04/01/2014 - 02:25
image/svg+xml conflict leadership appraisal rejection performance equality positiveness motivation flexibility ROWE stress engagement encouragement objectification ethics fear environment creativity compassion trust retirement anxiety potential anger confinement innovation ritual myth craft productivity unemployment recognition behavior self-esteem hierarchy career resentment group ideology culture psychic prison bureaucracy unconscious rationality reward rank rage politics dignity freedom change mobbing depression accommodation technology meaning criticism alexithymia organization man neo-Taylorism talent psychic vampire automation computerization control machine cooperation balance vision blame alienation treatment punishment diversity discipline panopticism activism fulfillment growth empathy setback accountability rules job loss participation risk ideas time dysfunction humanness shame power individuality love respect happiness understanding burnout involvement despair accomplishment democracy psychic cancer mechanistic organization hubris reinvention work-life integration disillusionment quality openness retribution dialogue importance appreciation relationships overmanagement intervention gifts caring leisure organizational psychodynamics busyness goals entrepreneurship truth play deception supportiveness administrative slack vulnerability groupthink social responsibility fairness role achievement loyalty position stigma disability identity tradition questioning whistleblowing weakness strengths schadenfreude prestige conformity security mentoring autonomy bullying boredom reputation submissiveness management style management system addictive organization organization development ideals management belonging learning false self organizational ideal organizational totalitarianism action learning disposability secrecy challenge authoritarianism integrity group exclusivity office friendships teams curiosity passion community maturity inner security domination group narcissism success forgiveness competition walking wounded authoritarian character scientific management abuse scapegoating personality test envy antipathy credibility labeling pronoia work-life balance expertise uniformity kindness wellness business corruption rigidity results laughter excellence helplessness dissent shunning acceptance patience judgment voice self-doubt responsibility rivalry pain clickable links:

Love

Submitted by WorkCreatively on Tue, 05/27/2014 - 07:50

"Love isn't a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now."

— Fred Rogers

Fear of being oneself in the workplace

Submitted by WorkCreatively on Wed, 05/14/2014 - 20:21

The following paper was originally written several years ago as a draft document:

This document is an outgrowth of focusing on a specific question used in an employee survey. That question is: "I feel that I can be myself at work?" The multiple-choice checkboxes on the survey form ranged from strongly agree to strongly disagree.

I find this particular question fascinating, for not only did the survey designers consider it to be important by designating it a "key driver" of employee satisfaction, it seems to raise other meaningful questions. If one can't be one's self then who is one being exactly? It seems that if one is not being one’s self, one is rather presenting something else, a “false self” perhaps, a term that was introduced by Donald Winnicott1 and elaborated on here by R.D. Laing:2

Stark raving mad

Submitted by WorkCreatively on Mon, 07/09/2012 - 04:58

"Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad."

— Fyodor Dostoevsky

Highly creative people

Submitted by WorkCreatively on Fri, 02/03/2012 - 06:32

"Highly creative people are probably highly creative because of certain cognitive mechanisms that also would predispose them to symptoms of mental disorder if they didn't have additional protective factors."

— Shelley Carson

http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/13/living/brian-wilson-creativity/index.html?iref=allsearch

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