Moral Violence in Organizations: Hierarchic Dominance and the Absence of Potential Space

Professor of Public Affairs and Director of Organizational Leadership Programs and the Center for the Study of Organizational Change at the University of Missouri-Columbia, Harry S Truman School of Public Affairs. He received his PhD specializing in political psychology, organizational behaviour, and political theory from the University of Maryland at College Park, 1981. Professor Diamond teaches and writes on organizational analysis and change, conflict and violence in the workplace, and the group psychology of terrorism. He is a political psychologist and practicing organizational analyst for corporations, government agencies, not-for-profit organizations, Universities, and healthcare delivery systems. He has published extensively in scholarly journals and is author and co-author of three books. He was Co-Editor-in-Chief of the American Review of Public Administration from 1987 to 1995 and is currently a member of the editorial board of Administration & Society and is the Associate Editor of two journals Organisational and Social Dynamics and Psychoanalysis, Culture and Society. He is a member of the International Society of Political Psychology and is founding member and past-President of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organizations (ISPSO). During 2001 and 2002 he served as a member of the faculty to INSEAD (Fontainebleau, France) and HEC (Paris, France) and their joint-International Diploma Program in Consulting and Coaching for Change. Dr. Diamond was awarded the 1994 Harry Levinson Award for Excellence in Consulting from the American Psychological Association and awarded the 1999 William T. Kemper Fellow for Excellence in Teaching from the University of Missouri, Columbia.

Has 15 years of experience consulting to strategic planning, organizational restructuring, including merger facilitation and business process redesign, for large and small organizations. Dr. Allcorn also has 20 years of experience as a healthcare executive. He is currently the Director of Business Process and Analysis, Health Enhancement Division of Matria Healthcare. His previous position was as Associate Dean for Fiscal Affairs at the Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola, Chicago. Dr. Allcorn has published extensively. His latest books are: The Dynamic Workplace: Present Structure and Future Redesign (Praeger, 2003), Death of the Spirit in the American Workplace (Quorum, 2002) and Managing People During Stressful Times: The Psychologically Defensive Workplace (Quorum, 1997). He has also published a number of additional books and chapters and more than 60 papers in popular practitioner and scholarly journals.