Telling them what they know: Organizational change, defensive resistance, and the unthought known

Journal of Applied Behavioral Science

Volumn 44, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 348-364

  Diamond, Michael A ^a,b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MISSOURI   (United States)

^b Department of Public Affairs ^*

^c Center for the Study of Organizational Change

Author keywords

And change; Defensive resistance; Feedback to clients; Intervention; Organizational diagnosis; Transference; True and false self; Unthought known

Indexed keywords

EID: 49549095776     PISSN: 00218863     EISSN: 15526879     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0021886308317403     Document Type: Article

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