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I. What are Values Worth?

Guidelines for Organizational Applications of Transactional Analysis

Pages 174-178
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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Organizational work with TA is different in some crucial ways from clinical work. For organizational applications of TA, guidelines based on the concepts of the contract, protection, permission and potency are useful. In organizational work, the contract is usually with the organization and not the individual “invited” to the TA training session. This differs from the clinical setting. Thus TA becomes primarily a tool for communicating a way of sorting out human behavior and discovering options. Protection, permission and potency each has its unique meaning so as not to interfere with but to enhance the autonomy of individuals.

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Roger N. Blakeney

Dorothy Jongeward, PhD, CSFTM, is president of Transactional Analysis Management Institute Inc., of Orinda, California and is a life member of the California Association of Marriage and Family Counselors.
Roger N. Blakeney, PhD, RM in special fields training, is an associate professor of organizational behavior and management at the University of Houston Central Campus, a psychologist, and president of Blakeney & Associates of Houston, Texas.