Managing Toxic Leaders and Dysfunctional Organizational Dynamics

Seth Allcorn, Ph.D., M.B.A. is the former Vice President for Business and Finance at the University of New England in Biddeford, Maine. Dr. Allcorn has more than twenty years of experience working with physicians, hospitals, and academic medical centers. He has served as a financial and administrative Assistant Dean at the Texas Tech School of Medicine and Associate Dean for the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola–Chicago. He has also managed two departments of internal medicine for the University of Missouri–Columbia and the University of Rochester. He has 40y years of experience as an organizational consultant specializing in the management of change, strategic planning, and organizational restructuring.Dr. Allcorn is the author or co-author of fourteen books, half a dozen chapters, and over ninety papers that have appeared in scholarly and practitioner journals. He is a founding member of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations.

• Chapter 1 An Introduction to Understanding the Psychosocial Nature of Organizational Life Chapter 2 An Overview of the Psychosocial Organization Part One Destructive Organizational Dynamics Chapter 3 Oppression at Work Chapter 4 Autocratic, Authoritarian, and Oppressive Leadership Chapter 5 Adapting to the Dysfunctional Organization Part Two Organizational Fragmentation and Falling Apart Chapter 6 Falling Apart: Organizational Fragmentation Chapter 7 Falling Apart: Group Fragmentation Chapter 8 Falling Apart: Interpersonal Fragmentation Chapter 9 Falling Apart: Personal Fragmentation Part Three Organizational Healing Chapter 10 The Psychological Dimensions of Roles in Organizations Chapter11 Diagnosing Organizational Narcissism Chapter 12 Understanding Dysfunctional Organizational Dynamics and Leadership Chapter 13 Consulting to Dysfunctional Organizations Chapter 14 Intentional Leadership Chapter 15 Looking Back and Looking Forward

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