Authority, Leadership and Partnership in Organizations

Director, Evelyn D. Cleavely, Associate staff member, Tavistock Institute of Marital Studies

An experiential conference in the Tavistock tradition designed to enable members to extend their awareness of group and organizational processes and of their participation in them. The method is learning through experience and reflection. The design of the conference is based on the assumption that by examining and interpreting experiences within the conference institution, members will be enable to enlarge their understanding of their own institutions and their roles in them.

The design allows members to explore among other things:

• The impact of unconscious fantasy and dynamics on work groups
• The significance of visible and invisible boundaries and how they are managed
• The difference between the stated task of a group and the task it actually appears to be pursuing
• Discrepancies between official roles and those individuals are called upon to play
• Discrepancies between formal and informal authority

The primary task is to provide opportunities to study the exercise of leadership, authority and partnership in the context of interpersonal, intergroup and institutional relations within the conference.

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The conference begins on January 15, 1997 and ends on January 19. The conference fee is $750 if received in full with a completed application form and postmarked on or before December 5, 1996. The conference fee then increases to $850 for completed applications postmarked after December 5, 1996.

Members of the A.K. Rice Institute are entitled to a fee reduction of $100. Also, a limited amount of assistance may be available - contact me for details.

The conference fee includes accommodations in individual rooms at the conference center, and all meals but one dinner. The nearest international airport is Bradley Field near Hartford, Connecticut.

The conference brochure should be mailed in early September, 1996. See the virtual conference brochure TimMize@AOL.COM

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