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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
Aesthetic Symbols as Emotional Cues
Aesthetic Symbols as Emotional Cues
This chapter draws a connection between aesthetic symbols in organizations and emotions of organizational participants. Perhaps because both these notions maintain an unclear link to productivity and efficiency they have not been centre-stage issues in organizational research. Yet both are clearly recognized as essential elements of organization (cf. Cacioppo and Gardner, 1999; Fineman, 1996; Gagliardi, 1990; Strati, 1992). We believe that the two notions are tightly related. We wish to assert and illustrate in this chapter that aesthetic symbols can and do generate a predictable pattern of emotional scripts. We begin with a brief review of pertinent research and then describe an empirical study that integrated qualitative and quantitative data to illustrate ...
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