Description
In this thoroughly revised, expanded, and up to date edition of William L. White’s classic Incest in the Organizational Family, the Writer takes a close, hard look inside today’s workplace. He offers a brilliant and powerful indictment of the debilitating consequences of business-as-usual, revealing the incestuous dynamic in which organizational members, isolated from the outdoor world, increasingly more meet their personal, professional, social, and even sexual needs inside the boundary of the organizational “family.”
White then offers bold and innovative strategies designed to restore the health and vitality of organizations and employees. The Incestuous Workplace works both as an operations guide for sustaining organizational health within environments that are increasingly more turbulent and threatening and as a personal survival manual for many who find themselves in destructive work environments.
“I strongly recommend this text for all administrators, managers, and supervisors…. I encourage you to read and implement the concepts developed within this book. They’re challenging, and they are going to give you the results you want.”
Donald J. Mockenhaupt, L.I.C.S.W., A.C.S.W., Director, Mental Health/Chemical Dependency Division, Ramsey County Human Products and services Department, St. Paul, Minnesota
“This down-to-earth treatise on toxic work environments sounds the alarm to balance the demands of business with the limits of the human condition before more casualties mount.”
Marilyn R. Peterson, M.S., Writer of At Personal Risk: Boundary Violations in Professional-Client Relationships
“Bill White is The us’s foremost thinker in the area of incest dynamics found in the workplace, and also the source of the most creative solutions to this problem.”
Gary Schoener, Writer and organizational consultant, Executive Director, Walk-In Counseling Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota