Journal of Health Organization and Management
Call for papers on Emotion in Healthcare Organization
Emotion is a developing area of interest in management and organization,
and has a particular relevance to healthcare which purports to be dominated
by the rational scientific paradigm, but is intimately involved in the
world of emotion. Journals are fast developing perspectives on what emotion
is and how it must be interpreted and researched. What is less clear is why
we need to understand it and how it gives meaning within the world of
healthcare organization and management. Many groups in healthcare are now
interpreting its relevance through a focus on specific areas; for example,
nurses have long been concerned with the relevance of the emotional labour
process, doctors have more recently focussed on the development of
emotional intelligence, whilst managers often see it in the context of
organizational culture and climate. Meanwhile large areas of healthcare
provision, for example psychiatry see emotion as integral to the work
content itself.
The assumption is that these perspectives in healthcare are translated
into relevant and appropriate organizational and managerial responses for
patients and staff. However this may not be so and a better understanding
of emotion as an iterative process between the organization and those
involved with it is needed. It may shed light on both the patients journey
and all those who become involved in it, through the variety of
organizations now providing healthcare be they public, private, or even
complimentary and alternative.
This special edition of the Journal of Health Organization and Management,
whose guest editor is Prof. Annabelle Mark, Professor of Healthcare
Organisation at Middlesex University Business School aims to explore these
issues and more. In particular, we are seeking papers which are either
conceptual or empirically based and which: -
Develop theories of emotion relevant to healthcare organisation;
Critically evaluate current developments in emotion studies for example
the relevance and dominance of the emotional labour and or emotional
intelligence literatures;
Explore the influence both explicit and unspoken of emotion theory and
practice within health organizations, work roles and the patient
experience;
Explore critically concepts of emotion in relation to organizational
developments such as risk, governance, new technologies and the patient
journey.
Papers should be 6,000-8,000 words in length and should be submitted by
1st October 2004. They should be submitted By e-mail to: [log in to unmask]
Or three hard copies, containing e-mail addresses of the authors, should
be sent to:
Dr. Nancy Harding,
Nuffield Institute,
University of Leeds,
71-75 Clarendon Road,
Leeds. LS2 9PL
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