ABSTRACT
This book deals with open and hidden family dynamics in organizations – a topic in organizational psychology. Through theory and examples, the book demonstrates how an understanding informed by family dynamics can often explain phenomena in organizations that may at first glance seem strange or meaningless and which are a drain on the organization’s time and energy.
The family is a system of individuals in relationships that have been established through sexual reproduction. This relational system contains a number of positions: mother, father, daughter, sister, brother, maternal grandmother, paternal grandmother, great-grandfather, cousin, second cousin, great-uncle, aunt and so forth. A person may simultaneously occupy several positions in the systems: a father is also a son; he may be a maternal grandfather and so forth. Inheritance laws describe this in specific detail.
