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Emotional labor

About: Emotional labor is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 3948 publications have been published within this topic receiving 112110 citations. The topic is also known as: emotional labour.


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01 May 2001-Geoforum
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a more nuanced understanding of the complex and contradictory ways that men interact with other men in the workplace (e.g., peers, subordinates, and superiors), unpicking the dominant or hegemonic view of male managers as rational.

76 citations

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TL;DR: The role of emotion in the workplace has been the subject of a series of provocative studies (Hochschild, 1983; Van Maanen & Kunda, 1989). as mentioned in this paper locates research on organizational emotion in larger traditions of emotion research and argues that the communicative aspects of emotion have been understudied.
Abstract: The role of emotion in the workplace has been the subject of a series of provocative studies (Hochschild, 1983; Van Maanen & Kunda, 1989). This essay locates research on organizational emotion in the larger traditions of emotion research and argues that the communicative aspects of emotion have been understudied. Existing research on the subject is divided into three themes: the emotional labor and attendant psychological costs that characterize some occupations, the use of emotional expression as a tool for the achievement of management objectives, and the role of culture in shaping the emotional lives of members. Three broad areas requiring study by communication researchers are explored. First, the substantial literature on organizational regulation of emotional display is reviewed and criticized for implicitly casting communication in the role of “emotional packaging.” Second, possibilities for studying the process of emotional interpretation are presented, with particular emphasis on the constitutive...

75 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, an investigation of the relationship between emotional labor and emotional labor is presented. But they focus on employees who work "with heart" to deliver public services, rather than emotional labor.
Abstract: Recent appreciation for emotional labor draws attention to employees who work “with heart” to deliver public services. This article reports an investigation of the relationship between emotional la...

75 citations

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TL;DR: The graduate student who said this to me seemed sincerely surprised to learn about emotional labor, the study of emotion regulation in the workplace as mentioned in this paper. But he did not explain why he thought of it that way before.
Abstract: “I’ve never thought of it that way before!” The graduate student who said this to me seemed sincerely surprised to learn about emotional labor, the study of emotion regulation in the workplace. Rep...

74 citations

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TL;DR: In this article, a structural equation modeling approach is used to identify the complex relationships inherent among emotional labor and other relevant factors, namely, personality, culture, work experience, job autonomy, and job satisfaction; job satisfaction was identified as being dependent on emotional labour and all other variables were identified as independent.

74 citations


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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
2023124
2022302
2021246
2020303
2019326
2018285