The Addictive Organization : Why We Overwork, Cover Up, Pick Up the Pieces, Please the Boss, and Perpetuate S

Schaef and Fassel show how managers, workers, and organization members exhibit the classic symptoms of addiction: denying and avoiding problems, assuming that there is no other way of acting, and manipulating events to maintain the status quo. Workaholism Is A Destructive Behavior That Society Encourages In The Erroneous Belief That It Results In Increased Productivity. This Book. Introduction : A Missing Piece -- The Origins Of An Idea -- The Addictive System : Terms And Characteristics -- The Four Major Forms Of Addiction In Organizations. Organizations In Which A Key Person Is An Addict ; Taking Your Disease With You Into The Organization, Or The Reality Of Replication ; The Organization As The Addictive Substance ; The Organization As Addict -- Recovery In The Addictive Organization -- Implications And Conclusions. What Are The Implications If Organizations Continue To Function Addictively? ; When Organizations Begin To Recover And Make A System Shift. Anne Wilson Schaef And Diane Fassel. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [229]-232). This study of managers and workers, shows how symptoms of addiction are exhibited in organizations - denying and avoiding problems, assuming that there is no other way of acting and manipulating events to maintain the status quo. The authors explore four forms of organization addiction. We believe that we have developed a unique description of a process in group and organizational life.