Corruption. Aberration or an Inevitable Part of the Human Condition? Insights from a ‘Tavistock’ Approach1

Principal Social Scientist and Director of the Group Relations Programme at the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations, London. He manages organisational development and change projects and consults to top management of organisations on the role of leadership in effecting strategic change. His research and consultancy work focuses on the impact of thought on the dialectic relationship between social constructivism, the unconscious and liberal democracy. He is a Fellow of the British Association of Psychotherapists (BAP) and a practising psychoanalytical psychotherapist. Mannie has published on subjects of consultancy, leadership, organisational development, ethics, and corruption. He is a member of the Board of the International Society for the Psychoanalytic Study of Organisations (ISPSO); Member, the Israel Association for the Study of Group and Organisational Processes (OFEK), and the Organisation for the Promotion of Understanding in Society (OPUS).