Emotion in Organizational Change (eBook)

An Interdisciplinary Exploration

Usman Talat (Autor)

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2016 | 1st ed. 2017
XIII, 116 Seiten
Springer International Publishing (Verlag)
978-3-319-47693-3 (ISBN)

Infos

This book constructs a multi-disciplinary interpretation of emotion, specifically applied and discussed within Organizational Change environments. Including a range of perspectives from Philosophy, Evolutionary Sciences, Psychology and Sociology, Emotion in Organizational Change also provides a historical picture of our knowledge of emotion. The author explores how this can contribute towards a novel understanding of a pervasive phenomenon in society and its organizations. 

Usman Talat is a Lecturer in People Management at the University of Salford, UK. His research interests include Philosophy, Evolutionary psychology, and Organizational change.                                                                   

Inhalt

Emotion in Organizational Change 3
Acknowledgements 5
Contents 6
Introduction 7
Early Greek Thought and the Philosophers of the Enlightenment Era 12
Ancient Beginnings 12
Aristotelian Teleology, Change and Emotion 19
Aristotelian Logic of Emotion 21
From Descartes to Darwin 24
The Bigger Picture 29
Worker Reason, Imagination and Emotion(s) in Change 30
Identity 34
Imagination 41
Anthropomorphisms – The Emotional Faces of Change 46
Conclusion 50
Organizational Change, Risk and Employee Passions 52
The Risk of Emotion in Understanding Risk 54
Assumptions of Uncertainty 59
Sartre’s Risk in Feeling Emotion 64
Conclusion 66
Evolutionary Perspectives on Leadership, Emotion and Organizational Change 67
An Evolutionary case for Teams, Leaders and Emotion 70
The Primacy of Emotion 78
Leader as the Rhetorician of Emotional Orchestra’s 84
Stories, Metaphors and Emotional Appeal 90
Conclusion 91
The Social Psychology of Emotion and Biases During Change 93
The Confirmation Bias 94
The Illusion of Transparency 96
The Spotlight Effect 96
The Just-World Hypothesis 98
The Correspondence Bias 100
Moral Biases 102
Conclusion 104
References 105
Index 122

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 19.12.2016
• Zusatzinfo: XIII, 116 p.
• Verlagsort: Cham
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Wirtschaft ► Betriebswirtschaft / Management ► Personalwesen
• Schlagworte: Evolutionary Psychology • organization • People Management • philosophy of work • Sociology
• ISBN-10: 3-319-47693-9 / 3319476939
• ISBN-13: 978-3-319-47693-3 / 9783319476933