Emotion in Organizations

by Stephen Fineman (Editor)

The topic of emotion has been conspicuously absent from most texts on organizing and organizational behaviour. This groundbreaking book is the first to redress this imbalance by bringing together a range of contributions that clearly demonstrate how analysis of emotion must be part of any convincing theory of organization. The introduction explores the ways in which issues of emotion permeate central themes of organizational analysis, such as language, culture, identity, power and control. Contributors then draw on a number of case studies to examine such issues the relations among bureaucracy, rationality and emotion in organizations; masculinity and the gendered nature of emotional control; how organizational order, `

Genres: Psychology

256 pages, Hardcover

First published August 30, 1993

Reviews

[amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kind of older but solid foundation for studying what it's like to be at work.