Acceptance Speech on Receiving the 2012 Eric Berne Memorial Award

Abstract

This article is an edited version of the speech delivered by the author on receiving the 2012 Eric Berne Memorial Award. The theoretical basis of the two articles on power and leadership and organizational scripts for which she won the award are discussed, and the use of transactional analysis concepts for understanding organizational behavior is described. Some additional observations are presented about the use of transactional analysis in nonclinical fields.

Keywords

Eric Berne Memorial Award leadership leadership styles organizations organizational behavior organizational ideologies organizational scripts power power and leadership transactional analysis

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