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OB - Emotion
Organisational Behaviour - Role of Emotion
Question | Answer |
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Public vs Private emotion | We are all emotional hipocrites Problematic to categorise emotion into positive and negative |
Mixed and frequently changing emotions | Associated with physical and mental changes - eg. smiling |
Universal, biological, culture specific, psychology specific | eg. |
Bolton 2000 | Emotionalised orgs, eg. Jaguar Strong emotional connections are made associated with work and identity |
Goleman 1998 | Emotional intelligence Can know their own emotions, recognise emotions in others, self motivate Selling emotion has become a management fashion |
Freud- the human mind | Conscious - thoughts and perceptions Preconscious - memories and stored knowledge Unconscious - fears, unacceptable sexual desires, violent motives, |
Hochschild 1983 | Emotional labour - Face to face with public, produce emotional state in others, degree of control over emotions |
Emotion regulation | If there are these effects in respect to customer related emotional labour there will be intra org issues. Antecedent or response focuses Modify internal feelings or suppress, falsify, amplify feelings |
Surface Acting vs Deep Acting | Hoschcihild's emotional dissonance Surface acting is associated with stress, burnout etc - suppress true feelings and falsify emotions Deep acting increases personal achievement and reduces stress - modify internal feelings to match |
Van Maanen 1991 | The smile factory - Disneyland. Feeling business based on use of hyper reality and emotional labour. Emotionalised organisation. Customers and employees maintain this role - the social construction of emotion |
Eco 1987 | Disneyalnd hyperreality and the mask of capitalism |
Gender differences | Women make an asset of emotion handling - more sensitive and human orientated. HR shows importance of emotion and feeling in orgs |
Issues - Frost 2003 (normal by products in orgs) | Burnout, estrangement and stress issues, product of psychological strain of too high emotional dissonance. Depersonalisation and emotional exhaustion |
Frost 1991 | Toxic emotion and toxic emotion handling - high price to pay for toxic handlers - risking addiction and burnout. |
Role of emotion | In constructing political and status hierachies - emotional strength as one important factor in leadership ability |
Maslow | Hierarchy of needs - theory of employee motivation |
Herzberg | Motivation - hygiene theory - certain set of factors influencing satisfaction and dissatisfaction with work. |
Vroom | Expectancy theory - we are motivated by the result we are expecting to come |