Emotions at Work: Normative Control, Organizations, and Culture in Japan and America (Harvard East Asian Monographs): 213 - Hardcover

Raz, Aviad

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674008588 ISBN 13: 9780674008588

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 2002

Synopsis

Our work life is filled with emotions. How we feel on the job, what we say we feel, and what feelings we display―all these are important aspects of organizational behavior and workplace culture. Rather than focusing on the psychology of personal emotions at work, however, this study concentrates on emotions as role requirements, on workplace emotions that combine the private with the public, the personal with the social, and the authentic with the masked. In this cross-cultural study of "emotion management," the author argues that even though the goals of normative control in factories, offices, and shops may be similar across cultures, organizational structure and the surrounding culture affect how that control is discussed and conceived.

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About the Author

Aviad E. Raz is Associate Professor of Sociology at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674008588
• ISBN 13: 9780674008588
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 304