The Emotional Organization Passions and Power [Paperback]

This landmark collection is exclusively devoted to demonstrating/mapping (what is understood today about the power and structural effects of emotion and identity in organizations. Essays at the leading edge of research reveal the influence of workplace cultures, power, and institutional expectations, while also exploring the negative impacts of emotion management in the workplace.

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• Brings together an international group of cutting-edge researchers to write critically about emotion in different organizational and cultural settings
  
• Includes research on policy, change, management and professional practice
  
• Exposes the influence of workplace cultures, power and institutional expectations on emotion
  
• Reveals the darker and oppressive features of emotion management in organizations
  
• Applies recent critical organizational theory to emotion.

List of Contributors.

1. Introducing the Emotional Organization: Stephen Fineman (University of Bath).

Part I: Emotional Arenas.

The Hospital.

2. Me, Morphine and Humanity: Experiencing the Emotional Community on Ward 8: Sharon Bolton (The University of Strathclyde).

The Prison.

3.Power, Paradox, Social Support and Prestige: A Critical Approach to Addressing Correctional Officer Burnout: Sarah Tracy (Arizona State University).

Crisis Work.

4. Rape Work: Emotional Dilemmas in Work with Victims: Patricia Yancey Martin, Douglas Schrock, Margaret Leaf and Carmen Von Rohr (Florida State University).

The Recreation Centre.

5. In the Gym: Peer Pressure and Emotion Management Among Co-Workers: Mary Haman anlc¶