Organizational Trauma is pervasive across nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and businesses.
The book covers: -Definition and detailed description of a traumatized system -Typology of different kinds and sources of Trauma and traumatization -Interventions for organizations in the immediate aftermath of Trauma and for those that suffer from long-term traumatiza.
The authors offer theory and practice based on more than thirty years of work with not-for-profit and government organizations.
It introduces a framework to analyze Organizational realities in broad and deep ways and strategies to avoid or mitigate danger of traumatization as well as improve Organizational health and sustainability.
The book describes the inherent influence of Organizational work on Organizational patterns and culture and connects that influence to Trauma and traumatization.
It gives them concepts and tools to strengthen their organizations and to help the organizations to heal from Organizational trauma.
Organizational Trauma and Healing is written for Organizational leaders, consultants, and other practitioners interested in helping organizations become stronger.
Over time the unhealed effects of Trauma and traumatization compromise the organization\'s fundamental health.
It negatively impacts service delivery, compromises work with clients, and weakens the organization\'s ability to respond to internal and external challenges.
Unaddressed Organizational Trauma - whether sudden or cumulative - causes serious harm and can be catastrophic for organizations.
Organizational traumatization may also result from repeated damaging actions or the deleterious effects of the nature of an organization\'s work.
Traumatic events can be sudden, shocking, and throw the organization into turmoil.
Organizational Trauma is a collective experience that overwhelms the organization\'s defensive and protective structures and leaves the entity temporarily vulnerable and helpless or permanently damaged.
Organizational Trauma and Healing is the first book about Organizational Trauma using an Organizational lens.
In fact, Organizational Trauma and traumatization seriously harm organizations; impacts may be drastic and long lasting.
Much work on Organizational Trauma ignores the systemic nature of traumatization and the insidious, negative consequences to organizations once Trauma becomes embedded in Organizational culture.
However, the phenomenon has received scant attention or been misidentified.
Organizational Trauma is pervasive across nonprofit organizations, government agencies, and businesses
