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Intervening in Organizational Trauma: A Tale of Three Organizations

In: Leading and Managing in the Social Sector

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  • Shana Hormann

    (Antioch University)

  • Pat Vivian

Abstract

Parallel to individuals’ experiences, organizations can suffer from trauma. Organizational trauma may result from a single devastating event, from the effects of many deleterious events over time, or from the impact of cumulative trauma that comes from the nature of the organization’s work. Whatever the source, organizations are wounded, sometimes severely. Trauma and traumatization overpower the organization’s cultural structure and processes and weaken the organization’s ability to respond to external and internal challenges. These cultures harbor effects of unhealed sudden traumatic events as well as insidious cumulative traumatization. Unless the effects of organizational trauma and the resulting dynamics are addressed effectively, organizations are doomed to repeat them. The authors use three case examples to help leaders and consultants identify and intervene in appropriate ways to heal organizations and promote organizational health.

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  • Shana Hormann & Pat Vivian, 2017. "Intervening in Organizational Trauma: A Tale of Three Organizations," Management for Professionals, in: S. Aqeel Tirmizi & John D. Vogelsang (ed.), Leading and Managing in the Social Sector, chapter 0, pages 175-189, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:mgmchp:978-3-319-47045-0_11
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-47045-0_11
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    1. Hoffman, James J. & Driver, Michaela, 2022. "Entrepreneurial miasma: Organizational miasma as a theoretical lens for increasing the odds of venture survival after the founder exits," Journal of Business Venturing Insights, Elsevier, vol. 18(C).

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