Maggie's Farm

I can understand group psychology - I've read (required reading in Economics) several books on the 'madness of crowds'. Mackay's work is probably most well-known. Group-think is something anyone who has worked in Corporate America is familiar with (I posted, several years ago, on the need for a role called "Captain Obvious" http://maggiesfarm.anotherdotcom.com/archives/18295-Captain-Obvious-Groupthink-at-the-office.html to say what others think but won't say.) In fact, I shared this article today on LinkedIn:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/how-your-company-can-benefit-from-tenth-man-rule-rudolf-melik

I can also understand 'systems psychology', particularly as it applies to couples or families.

"Corporate Psychology" - to me - sounds like a made up concept which will draw people into a social studies field, spend a lot of money to study it, and then find that it doesn't really work the way they were taught.

Right now, (as my Culture of Thank You post points out) my group is undergoing the application of a very particular form of Corporate Psychology. Everyone (not really, but to keep the SVP happy) believes it's working. I just remain silent. I can see the few benefits it has provided, but the damage is growing by the day. It's unseen, and nobody wants to see it, but it's there. Management writing and re-writing objectives to conform to the language and rules. Hours in meetings to review these objectives and discuss them. Productive time during the day wasted - managers quietly discussing how they've had to use their personal time to finish real work.

The assumption being, of course, that once the objectives are 'encoded', we can stop meeting and just focus on productive work. But the problem is they are never encoded. They always change. Business objectives, particularly in my industry, are on a 6 month cycle as fads and new ideas are introduced, tested, adopted or discarded, and then players move on.

The only objective should be to get the work done efficiently and generate revenue at a reasonable profit margin whenever possible.

The application of "Corporate Psychology", at least as I'm currently seeing it, is to convince everyone that stuff is getting done when important issues are being overlooked. It's cultural management....