Summary
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This book brings to the forefront contemporary and contested themes and issues about corporate life. Each chapter is written by a leading scholar who demonstrates how these issues and themes have been contextualized and theorized within writing and research. Each chapter supports the reader with an introduction and summary, review of the relevant literature and research, and a critique of how the theme under discussion fits into the bigger picture presented by the book.
Emotion1
Emotion1
Introduction
In the West, there is a tradition of splitting emotion and reason, of seeing the two as irreconcilable opposites. Within the workplace, the latter has undoubtedly dominated, at least in terms of managerial and organizational procedures and initiatives (Barbalet, 1998). Indeed, the modern work organization, and bureaucracy in particular, has long been seen as the bastion of rational thinking, where the prevailing view has been that the application of logical thought will lead to efficient and profitable operation (Weber, 1978). This view emerged or, at least, prospered, during the industrial revolution when, as the burgeoning factory system increasingly centralized production, the home became distanced from paid employment and sentimentalized by the middle classes (Gerth and Mills, 1953). If the head dominated the ...
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