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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
A Detective's Lot: Contours of Morality and Emotion in Police Work
A Detective's Lot: Contours of Morality and Emotion in Police Work
Big-city police detectives work in several tangled worlds, each marked by its own peculiar rationality and morality. Their work provides them with a front-row seat ticket to private lives in turmoil and to gear-grinding institutional gridlock on whose order should prevail. As criminal investigators who unravel deeds already done, they roam the fastness of the streets, a world of masked identities, cloaked agency, relationships governed by particularistic norms, binding codes of honour, and, frequently, remarkable violence. All the while they labour in the interstices of the instrumentally rational, thoroughly bureaucratized milieux of their own semi-military police organizations and of procedure-driven district-attorney offices and courts, ...
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