Stage actors and emotions at work

Emotions at work

We present a goal and belief model of emotions and on this basis we classify the emotions people feel while at work. Among “individual” emotions we distinguish the so-called primary emotions and their “families” from cognitive emotions like curiosity and boredom; among “social” emotions we include those linked to attachment, Image and Self-Image, and the Image of the Other. We describe an empir...

Ordering actors, organising work

This paper looks at the organising of work, as in who does what, when and how. We explore the relationship between work as situated action on the one hand and unfolding within the confines of stable social structures on the other. Being an underdeveloped topic of research, we analyse how more stable structures of work are being produced. By conceptualising the organising of work as a special ca...

The Clean Conscience at Work: Emotions, Intuitions and Morality

How do people decide what is right and wrong, and to what extent are their actions guided by such moral considerations? Inspired by philosophical traditions, early approaches to morality focused on rationality, and assumed that people arrive at moral standards by logical thought. More recently, however, psychologists have explored the influence of emotions and intuitions on morality, and eviden...

Stress and emotions at work: An adventure tourism guide’s experiences

Little research has identified issues faced by tour guiding professionals and investigations of tour guide experiences have been neglected in favour of tourist experience and behaviour studies. Even less research has focused on adventure guiding experiences and potential sources of stress and emotions in this context. Studies that have investigated adventure guide experiences generally focused ...

Gender and emotions at work: A reconceptualization of organizational commitment