Emotion in Organizations - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 080398734X ISBN 13: 9780803987340

Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd, 1993

Synopsis

"Emotion in Organizations offers an important contribution to the study of emergent changes in the sociology of organizations. The book is engrossing, inspiring, and challenging. It stands as a must for anyone interested especially in organizations, and organizational change. . . . also important for anyone seeking insights into cutting-edge developments in sociology." --Clinical Sociology Review "This is an intriguing book. It causes the reader to think at length about its central theme--what is the role of emotion in organizations? . . . he has definitely succeeded in introducing a new area of thought to the organizational literature." --Personnel Psychology, Inc. "A collection of ten essays exploring the ways in which issues of emotion permeate central themes of organizational analysis, such as language, identity, culture, power, and control. References. Engrossing." --Stern′s HR Management Review "Emotion in Organizations provides a comprehensive introduction to the ways in which emotions penetrate many of the basic themes of organizational analysis, such as the culture of an organization. . . . Emotion in Organizations reveals a picture of the feelings of men and women in the workplace and shows how personal emotions become both compromised and corrupted. . . . [The chapters] raise many thought-provoking issues and are well interspersed with first-hand anecdotes." --Empowerment in Organizations: An International Journal "This collection of original essays is really very interesting. Its range of explorations of the role of emotions in a variety of organizational settings, explored from a multitude of perspectives, means that the reader never becomes bored and it should appeal not only to specialists but also to anyone who has experienced organizational life. . . . The volume is well organized, with a preface by Arlie Hochschild, two valuable introductory essays which serve to introduce the subject, and a series of case studies which range from the discussion of Political Correctness in American Universities (Chapter 9) to a moving account of the negotiations and social relations surrounding the communication of diagnoses of cancer (Chapter 5)." --Work, Employment, and Society "Emotion in Organizations is both welcome and long overdue. . . . The book certainly does provide a wealth of fascinating case studies. . . . A rich variety of building materials." --The Occupational Psychologist "The book is intended to be a contribution to debate and a focus for further research. Some chapters stimulate the reader intellectually.... There are variations in the style of writing.... --Nancy Harding, BSc PHD, Lecturer in Health Care Management, Institute of Health Care Studies, University of Wales Swansea, Health & Social Care in the Community "Many of the issues discussed in this book will be of interest to a wider readership than students of organisation; or perhaps we are all students of the organisations in which we work." --Liz Meerabeau in Journal of

About this title

About the Author

Stephen Fineman is Professor of Organizational Behaviour, School of Management, University of Bath

CONTRIBUTORS′ AFFILIATIONS OUTSIDE NORTH AMERICA:

Gillian Bendelow University of Warwick

Karen P Harlos University of Otago, Dunedin

Avraham N Kluger The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Berry Mayall University of London

Anat Rafaeli Faculty of Industrial Engineering and Management, Technion, Haifa

Varda Wasserman The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Edition details

• Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
• Publication date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 080398734X
• ISBN 13: 9780803987340
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256
• Editor: Fineman Stephen