Shadow Working in Project Management: Understanding and Addressing the Irrational and Unconscious in Groups...

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Joana Bértholo

Shadow Working in Project Management

Understanding and Addressing the Irrational and Unconscious in Groups

Joana Bértholo

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Routledge
30 September 2020

Occupational & industrial psychology; Intelligence & reasoning; Project management; Neurosciences

Series: Complexity and Interdisciplinarity in Project Management

Shadow Working in Project Management aims at contributing to our knowledge of all things unconscious and irrational in our behaviour. It takes the form of an empirical research, and therefore addresses mostly the tools and techniques available to get in touch with Shadow aspects of self and collective, to recognize how it manifests, how it can lead to conflict, and ways to address it.

From that perspective, it advances on to question the underlying beliefs of current management practices. It explores as well the inherent need for control in projects, being those of a professional nature, or other ventures. It challenges the strength of the concept of the ""rational man"" and its protagonism.

Joana Bértholo’s work explores the role and nature of the Shadow in the context of projects and their management, with an emphasis on techniques to address it. Despite being directed to managers and dedicated to the analyses of the managerial discourse, the tools and processes it proposes have universal relevance, based on the fact that the Shadow is everywhere, within everyone, from the individual to the global scale.

By: Joana Bértholo
Imprint: Routledge
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm,
Weight: 220g
ISBN: 9780367667696
ISBN 10: 036766769X
Series: Complexity and Interdisciplinarity in Project Management
Pages: 202
Publication Date: 30 September 2020
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Acknowledgements Foreword by Professor Dr Louis Klein PART ONE: THE LEARNING JOURNEY Introduction Chapter 1 – The Learning Journey PART TWO: THE SHADOW OF PROJECT MANAGEMENT Chapter 2 – The Shadow of Management Studies – A Literature Review Chapter 3 – The Shadow of Project Management Chapter 4 – Integrating the Shadow of Project Management PART THREE – CONCLUSIVE THOUGHTS Chapter 5 – Main Shadow-spheres found in project management culture Chapter 6 – Account on a personal crisis: was Shadow-work worth the hard-work? Chapter 7 – Conclusive thoughts Index

Joana Bértholo is a researcher, novelist and playwright. She first attended the Fine-Arts and later a PhD in Cultural Studies. Art processes are her preferred mode of research, using writing as a platform to investigate on a wide scope of interests, such as technology, sustainability, and the darker aspects of groups and community.

Reviews for Shadow Working in Project Management: Understanding and Addressing the Irrational and Unconscious in Groups

""Shadow Working in Project Management by Joana Bértholo is one of the most comprehensive works on Shadow outside that of Jung's work that I have seen. She brings you a 360° perspective of how Shadow emerges in project management. Through her research, she illustrates how individuals' Shadows are difficult enough to work with, however collective shadows that emerge within teams are even more complex. Joana reminds you of what isn't evident, the multiple facets of Shadow and ways to navigate through their complexity. It was an honour and privilege to be interviewed for the book and I will definitely recommend to my students, project managers, OD specialists and anyone who wants to take a deep dive with individuals and their teams."" - Donna Karlin, author of Leaders: Their Stories, Their Words - Conversations with Human-Based Leaders™; Founder and Principal of the No Ceiling, Just Sky™ Institute.