Excerpt from Private Selves in Public Organizations by Michael A. Diamond and Seth Allcorn:
"We take the position that organizational culture,identity, and performance are the outcome of the collision between self (psychological structure) and organizations (social and political structure)—private selves in public organizations. We stress throughout the book that a contemporary psychoanalytic definition of organization is one premised on the notion that organizations are experiential and relational (intersubjective) as well as behavioral and observable. When one takes this into account it becomes self evident that the study of organizations requires that researchers immerse themselves in the organization with methods for extracting meaning through the organizational narrative and more importantly through the collective experiences and relational patterns of the organizational culture under observation. In this book we draw together many of the insights and perspectives that we have arrived at from nearly three decades of research, consultation, and administrative experience in academia."

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