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This Second Edition contains key themes with all new contributors and is a completely separate work from the first. Emotion in Organization presents original work from leading scholars in the field, they engage with emotion as a qualitative phenomenon which shapes and is shaped by organizational life. Examining how emotion cannot be simply separated from thinking, judgment, decision-making and other so-called rational organizational processes, the book challenges us to build a passionate theory of organizations. The introduction reviews the expansion of organizational emotion studies and their appeal to several social-scientific disciplines. Divided into four parts, the book reveals through stories, interview
Ambivalent Feelings in Organizational Relationships
Ambivalent Feelings in Organizational Relationships
concepts [like ambivalence] emerge when they are needed to make sense out of life's situations … [and] the rapidity, complexity, precariousness, and intensity of today's world are likely to generate increasing burdens of ambivalence … (Weigert and Franks, 1989: 224)
Depictions of organizational life have ranged from depictions of extreme alienation (Erikson, 1986) to extreme commitment (Butterfield, 1985; Kunda, 1992). However, the emotional portrait of workers may not be so easily captured by simple shades of positive or negative feelings. Rather, the rapid rate of change, the ever-increasing complexity, and the seeming incompleteness characteristic of social life in the twentieth century suggest that this is an ‘age of ambivalence’ (Weigert and Franks, 1989). In ...
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