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'This is a passionate book which has grown out of the author's different experiences of organizational injustices and oppressions in which emotions play a major part... This book takes the discourse a stage further. Lindebaum not only seeks to redeem emotions from the stifling controls to which they are put, but he also argues that emotional regulation by the workers themselves can act as a defence against organizational injustice and, more ambitiously, as an emancipatory force.' -- Yiannis Gabriel, Organization `In the current surge of organizational theory research on emotions in organizations, Dirk Lindebaum's book makes a unique and important contribution. He identifies and explores how workers' emotions are being abused as a tool of social repression by our bosses. In bringing together critical theory and theory on emotion regulation, he stimulates us to see through the workings of managerial power and, in the same go, offers ways to resist repressive emotional conditions in the workplace. A remarkable accomplishment that deserves to be read for both its theoretical insights and practical relevance!' -- Frank den Hond, Hanken School of Economics, Finland `Whose business is emotions? Your own? Your workplace's? Your culture's? In this erudite book Dirk Lindebaum steers through this fascinating territory to pinpoint the emotional traps that workers face and, importantly, how they may escape from them. This well-researched book helps us look at emotion with fresh eyes and offers important insights for scholars and students of emotion.' -- Stephen Fineman, University of Bath, UK `In today's Western industrialized world, emotional regulation is usually taken to be a sine qua non. In this book, however, Lindebaum challenges this assumption, asserting that our emotions are critical for individual achievement and wellbeing and that, rather than seeking to control our emotions, we need to act with creativity, spontaneity, and autonomy . Arguing from a critical management perspective, he makes a convincing case. This is a book that will be of interest not only to researchers, but also to management practitioners and consultants.' -- Neal M. Ashkanasy, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia `This is a passionate book which has grown out of the author's different experiences of organizational injustices and oppressions in which emotions play a major part. . . Emotional labour now stands on par with intellectual and manual labour as an arena of workplace politics, a politics that frequently leaves workers exploited, oppressed and depressed. This book takes the discourse

'In the current surge of organizational theory research on emotions in organizations, Dirk Lindebaum's book makes a unique and important contribution. He identifies and explores how workers' emotions are being abused as a tool of social repression by our bosses. In bringing together Critical Theory and theory on emotion regulation, he stimulates us to see through the workings of managerial power, and in the same go offers ways to resist repressive emotional conditions in the workplace. A remarkable accomplishment that deserves to be read for both its theoretical insights and practical relevance!' -- Frank den Hond, Hanken School of Economics, Finland 'Whose business is emotions? Your own? Your workplace? Your culture? In this erudite book Dirk Lindebaum steers through this fascinating territory to pinpoint the emotional traps that workers face and, importantly, how they may escape from them. This well researched book helps us look at emotion with fresh eyes and offers important insights for scholars and students of emotion.' -- Stephen Fineman, University of Bath, UK 'In today's Western industrialized world, emotional regulation is usually taken to be a sine qua non. In this book, however, Lindebaum challenges this assumption, asserting that our emotions are critical for individual achievement and wellbeing and that, rather than seeking to control our emotions, we need to act with creativity, spontaneity, and autonomy. Arguing from a critical management perspective, he makes a convincing case. This is a book that will be of interest not only to researchers, but also to management practitioners and consultants.' -- Neal M. Ashkanasy, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia

'In the current surge of organizational theory research on emotions in organizations, Dirk Lindebaum's book makes a unique and important contribution. He identifies and explores how workers' emotions are being abused as a tool of social repression by our bosses. In bringing together critical theory and theory on emotion regulation, he stimulates us to see through the workings of managerial power and, in the same go, offers ways to resist repressive emotional conditions in the workplace. A remarkable accomplishment that deserves to be read for both its theoretical insights and practical relevance!' -- Frank den Hond, Hanken School of Economics, Finland 'Whose business is emotions? Your own? Your workplace's? Your culture's? In this erudite book Dirk Lindebaum steers through this fascinating territory to pinpoint the emotional traps that workers face and, importantly, how they may escape from them. This well-researched book helps us look at emotion with fresh eyes and offers important insights for scholars and students of emotion.' -- Stephen Fineman, University of Bath, UK 'In today's Western industrialized world, emotional regulation is usually taken to be a sine qua non. In this book, however, Lindebaum challenges this assumption, asserting that our emotions are critical for individual achievement and wellbeing and that, rather than seeking to control our emotions, we need to act with creativity, spontaneity, and autonomy. Arguing from a critical management perspective, he makes a convincing case. This is a book that will be of interest not only to researchers, but also to management practitioners and consultants.' -- Neal M. Ashkanasy, UQ Business School, The University of Queensland, Australia

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Dirk Lindebaum, Professor in Management and Organisation, Grenoble Ecole de Management, France

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