Improving organizational health by addressing organizational trauma

Abstract

Organizations are searching for new methodologies to address their biggest concern for the future ‐ their health. In a world of risk, danger, and corporate diseases, survival may depend on resilience. Addressing organizational health offers opportunities for harnessing powerful resources within an organization, including the pathologies which often manifest themselves in patterns such as the euphoria of corporate adrenaline, the terror of inside competition, the scripts of success and failure ‐ each reflecting the trauma which can cripple an organization “invisibly”. These pathologies are epidemic; the patterns repeat in every industry, every government and social institution. The workplace of the future will also manifest these conditions. How we choose to address the pathologies, and our health, can change. We may complain, deny, point fingers and cry. We may delude ourselves with the antiseptic quick fix! Or we can address our health honestly and with honour. Our future is at stake.

Citation

Hilton Brown, E. (1997), "Improving organizational health by addressing organizational trauma", Journal of Organizational Change Management, Vol. 10 No. 2, pp. 175-178. https://doi.org/10.1108/09534819710160835