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Record Nr.

UNINA9910826626103321

Titolo

Leadership as emotional labour : management and the "managed heart" / / edited by Marian Iszatt-White

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon ; ; New York, N.Y. : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-136-22686-9

1-283-64374-X

0-203-09840-4

1-136-22687-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (257 p.)

Collana

Routledge studies in management, organizations, and society ; ; 20

Altri autori (Persone)

Iszatt-WhiteMarian

Disciplina

658.4/092

Soggetti

Leadership - Social aspects

Leadership - Psychological aspects

Management - Social aspects

Management - Psychological aspects

Emotions

Interpersonal relations

Organizational behavior - Social aspects

Service industries - Social aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Title; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; 1 Introduction: the 'Managed Heart'; 2 Leadership as emotional labour: so what's new?; 3 Leadership as emotional and compassionate labour: managing the human side of the enterprise; 4 Getting to the 'heart' of leaders doing emotional labour: a methodological, theoretical and empirical contribution; 5 How leading with emotional labour creates common identities; 6 The 'Managed Heart' of leaders: the role of emotional intelligence; 7 Truth, authenticity and emotional labour: a practitioner's perspective

8 Middle managers' emotional labour in disseminating culture change: a case study in the requirement for changing values9 Valuing employees: management rhetoric, employee experiences and the



implications for leadership; 10 Games leaders play: using Transactional Analysis to understand emotional dissonance; 11 Conclusions: management and the 'Managed Heart'; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Even if we don't realise it, most of us are now familiar with the idea of 'emotional labour'; that 'service with a smile' which everyone from cabin crew to restaurant or call centre staff is expected to give, irrespective of what they actually feel or think. This book considers the complex ways in which this need to show (or hide) particular emotions translates into job roles - specifically those of leaders or managers - where the relationships are lasting rather than transient, two-way rather than uni-directional and have complex, ongoing goals rather than straight-forward, one-off