The Unexpected Neighbor: Learning, Space, and the Unconscious in Organizations

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Abstract

This chapter engages with the question of how to help managers and leaders understand the emotional and political dynamics that surround and permeate their roles. Connecting learning, space, and the unconscious in the management classroom can stimulate creativity in the approaches that are used to educate managers and to underpin awareness of organizational dynamics that continuously affect management and leadership roles. A conceptual framework is presented to assist reflection on unconscious dynamics created in the relational space of management learning. The framework combines the group-analytic concept of relatedness with the spatial concept of throwntogetherness in order to reveal how conscious and unconscious emotional dynamics connect to political tensions inherent in relational space. An improved awareness of spatial relations and unconscious dynamics can provide insights into the complexities of relations that both support and undermine management and leadership roles.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationLearning Organizations
EditorsA. Berthoin Antal, P. Meusburger, P. Suarsana
Place of PublicationDordrecht, Germany
PublisherSpringer Nature
Pages129-142
Number of pages14
ISBN (Electronic)9789400772205
ISBN (Print)9789400772199
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 11 Sept 2013

Publication series

NameKnowledge and Space
Volume6
ISSN (Print)1877-9220
ISSN (Electronic)2543-0580

Keywords

  • Learning Group
  • Management Classroom
  • Organizational Learning
  • Organizational Member
  • Spatial Relation

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Arts and Humanities
  • General Social Sciences
  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)

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