Journal of Organizational Change Management: Volume 15 Issue 5

Leading change: insights from Jungian interpretations of The Book of Job

This paper explores insights from the psychology of C.G. Jung as it relates to leadership and the management of change in organizations. It draws especially upon Jung’s archetypal…

Competition archetypes and creative imagination

Organizational studies have been deeply influenced by three separate streams of research: the soft sciences; the hard sciences; and economics. This paper makes a case for an…

Jung, archetypes and mirroring in organizational change management: Lessons from a longitudinal case study

Jung’s discussion of archetypes and the psychodynamics of mirroring is applied to the results of a ten‐year longitudinal case study. Empirical evidence of such psychodynamics and…

Synchronicity: a post‐structuralist guide to creativity and change

Synchronicity was coined by Jung in 1955 to refer to the meaningful and acausal, or chance, correlation between an inner and outer event. Insofar as creativity is dependent upon…

Applying psychological type and “gifts differing” to organizational change

This paper applies concepts from the Myers‐Briggs type indicator (MBTI) to the context of organizational change. A brief history and explanation of type theory and the MBTI is…

The voice of the shuttle: Mythical and organizational transformations

While the literature has emphasized the literal and the narrative within organizations, this article will consider the visual and the imaginal. Organizations are known and…

Leaving our fathers’ house: Micrologies, archetypes, and barriers to conscious femininity in organizational contexts

What does it mean to leave one’s father’s house? Archetypally, the father’s house represents the dominant content of a culture’s collective consciousness, as well as dominance in…

DRIVEN: How Human Nature Shapes Our Choices

Identity, Learning, and Decision Making in Changing Organizations

Conquering Organizational Change: How to Succeed Where Most Companies Fail