Sheila McNamee, University of New Hampshire

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Samples of Sheila's Work

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On Organizational Life

Re-inscribing Organizational Wisdom and Courage: The Relationally Engaged Organization. Courage and wisdom, as terms that might be applied to our understanding of organizational life, present some interesting challenges. They are terms that we more readily associate with individuals...

The Pain of Politics and the Politics of Pain. Private pain, public entertainment. Sometimes even public pain for private entertainment. We are surrounded by situations that invite us to hurt, demoralize, and devalue each other. We each inhabit ways of relating to one another that invite these acts of violence.

Burnout as Social Process. We will discuss the phenomenon of burnout in social services. The subtitle of this essay could be the following: how the explanations of experts may contribute to create and/or maintain the problem which the experts (i.e., theorists and researchers) are trying to explain. Burnout is described as a detachment from one's own work and/or from clients and it is considered a psychological answer to the stress experienced by professionals in their job (Cherniss, 1980a; 1980b; Maslach, 1976).

 

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