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Since the 1980s, there has been an increasing interest in emotion in organizations, in diversity, ethics, care and the ubiquitous pursuit of quality. These concerns, however, have consistently been reduced to issues of management and regulation. In this work, the contributors argue that conventional representations of the organization are patriarchal, masculine and directed towards the animus. By contrast, they seek to restore the maternal aspects of organization.

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Heather Höpfl is Professor of Organizational Psychology and Head of the School of Operational Analysis and HR and the University of Northumbrra, UK. She is an Adjunct Professor of the University of South Australian, and holds Visiting Professorships in both Poland and the UK. She is a Fellow of the British Academy of Management and a former Chair of the SCOS. She is, with Stephen Linstead, editor of the journal Culture and Organisation, and has published a number of books. Monika Kostera is Professor in Management and Organization Theory at Warsaw University (Poland). She is a visiting professor at a number of institutions, including Northumbria University, UK and Växjö University, Sweden. She has published articles in journals such as Organisation, Organization Studies, Quantitative Sociology, and others, as well as books in Polish and English.

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