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Although originally written in 1983, The Managed Heart is still an up to date look at an interesting concept: combining emotional feelings with the work one does. At first glance, the notion that emotions may have an impact on one’s work environment seems almost a non-issue. However, Hochschild is not saying that; rather, Hochschild looks at the effect of emotions in the workplace, but also the interaction of those emotions with the work itself. The author’s interest in this topic began at an early age, 12, when she recounts an event in her life: her parents, part of the U.S. Foreign Service, entertained diplomats. Hochschild describes the question that came to her mind as she looked up into the smiling face of a

Both A.R Hochschild in “Exploring The Managed Heart” and William Davies in “All Happy Workers” argue that managers are too focused on their employees’ public emotions rather than their private feelings, therefore revealing a lack of empathy for their employees’ emotions. In “Exploring The Managed Heart” Arlie Russel Hochschild addresses the issues of corporations being more concerned with worker’s emotions than their feelings. Employees’ have to suppress their feelings in order to produce proper body language to consumers; Hochschild defines this as “emotional labor” therefore, workers unconsciously integrate their private feelings with their public feelings which can cause the workers to feel drained from their genuine feelings (7). Hochshild

Emotions become toxic when the gap of emotional dissonance is too apparent to fix resulting into verbal abuse, physical abuse or death!(Frost, 2004) In UK, a KFC manager experience job burnout when he started swearing at the customer, outrageously attacking him by punching and almost using kitchen utensils as a weapon (Moyes, 2008). Stressful emotions can become so toxic that it can even lead to death such as few cases reported last year at the Foxconn factory by employers preventing communication, toilet breaks to employees creating a robotic environment (Luk, 2014). According to Gallos (2008) toxic emotions builds up due to employers not treating or finding a solution to curb this problem, hence it will start to affect all of the employees. Nevertheless, to cope with these over powering emotions day in day out, employees have subconsciously become toxic handlers. They absorb and deal with high emotional labour by filtering emotional exhaustion they put up with (Frost, 2003). But how long can this be dealt with? Employees absent mindedly dealt with this prolonged emotional exhaustion which can be detrimental to an employee’s health and mental well-being just for financial gains (Toit,

Introduction Stress affects millions of people. One of the most common forms of stress is that related to our careers and the workplace. In today 's economic difficulty, work related stress is even more pronounced than ever before. Everyone who has ever held a job has, felt the pressure of work-related stress. Any job can have stressful elements, even if you love what you do. According to the American Psychological Association 's (APA) annual Stress in America Survey. Only 37 percent of Americans surveyed said they were doing

In “Exploring the Managed Heart” by Arlie Russel Hochschild and “All the Happy Workers” by William Davies, the authors agree that the emotions of employees are influenced by corporations in order to increase profit, but while Davies suggests workers can resist this phenomenon, Hochschild argues that employees will be affected, even in their private lives. Hochschild uses the term “transmutation,” which is the blending of a worker’s private and public life, to show how corporation’s requirements for “emotional labor” affect the employee’s personal lives (15). To support how corporations are effecting workers personal lives, Hochschild states “transmutation of an emotional system to convey that what we do privately often, unconsciously, to feelings...

"Emotional Labor among Paralegals" by Jennifer Pierce is centered around the phrase "emotional labor." After reading the article the reader discovers that the phrase "emotional labor" refers to when an employee has to push their feelings aside in order to please or influence their boss or clients. Emotional labor also consists of two components which are difference and caretaking. According to Goffman, (as cited by Pierce) deference is "a type of ceremonial activity which 'functions as symbolic means by which appreciation is regularly conveyed to the recipient" (129). Nevertheless, care taking is when the paralegal attends to the attorneys needs and assumes a "mother" role by being pleasant and giving reassurance.

In The Managed Heart Hochschild focuses on emotional labour: managing one 's emotions in the work place because it is one 's job to do so. While she touches on some benefits of emotion management, her book focuses on the dangers of losing one 's true self when one 's employer can control how one feels. Her main subjects are bill collectors and flight attendants, both are expected to have extreme (and opposite) emotions on the job.

The concept may sound reliable, however, there isn’t any set of ground rules to carry it out. That is to say as much of this sounds ideal in the article, however, doesn’t translate well to the real world. Frankly, emotions are hard to handle or even interpret because of many factors, especially since it one’s personal response on how they feel at a given time. The article proposes great points of views which provide many examples, especially of prominent people like Plato, Elias, and Durkheim. With these authors credited in, it provides the article with reliability. Furthermore, the article is well researched based on the findings and is logically

The workers at the deli chain Pret A Manger is used as a prime example of this by Timothy Noah in his article “Labor of Love.” Noah’s article builds primarily off the work of Arlie Hochschild, who defined “emotional labor,” which is is when employees must "induce or suppress” emotions in order to make the customer "experience a positive feeling" (1-2). According to Noah, Pret’s employees are extreme examples of “emotional laborers,” as they must follow set “Pret Behaviors” at all times. These rules of behavior make positivity and smiling mandatory, and subsequently all Pret workers must not only serve customers food, but also cater to their emotions (2-3). If employees fail to uphold their happy facade they face repercussions, often in the form of withheld bonuses (3). Noah states the stress to perform to these standards at all times makes the employees into “enthusiasm cops,” watching and enforcing these emotional behaviors onto one another, and as Noah puts it, “further constricting any space for a reserved and private self” (3). It is in this way that Pret manipulates its own workers into doing extra work (emotional labor and the enforcement of it) without extra

Arlie R. Hochschild’s “Exploring the Managed Heart,” and William Davies “All the Happy Workers,” both argue that emotions generated at work are blending into employees’ private lives, showing the extent of corporate control over employees emotions. Hochschild illustrates corporate control of employee emotion when she discusses the personal testimony of a flight attendant and her inability to shed the enthusiasm required on the job once she was home (4). This inability as Hochschild states is “[a] deeper extension of the professional smile is not always easy to retract at the end of the work day,” she suggests that the emotions fostered at work are not easily shed once it is time to clock out (4). With such a high demand for emotional labor

In my first ever job interview, the employer first told me, “In this job you will smile a lot, is that totally fine with you”. I didn’t quite know what he was talking about at first; I just nodded my head thinking about the money I’ll be making working for the company. I mean, I thought he meant I was going to be liking the job so much that I would literally be smiling every single time I clock-in and clock out, but boy I was wrong. What my employer really meant to say was to “fake smile” and put up a face that the customers would like to see and not my personal facial expressions. After realizing I was going to be the greeter for a couple of weeks, I actually had to complete a training session on “How to

We spend much of daily lives working. In fact, Americans spend about eight-times as many hours working as they do eating and drinking (U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, 2013). Approximately seven in ten Americans report that they experience symptoms of stress (Anderson, Belar, Breckler, Nordal, Ballard, Bufka, Bossolo & Bethune, 2013). Stress is elicited by a variety of psychological stimulus associated with our jobs, our residences, our social interactions, and the activities we engage in (p. 249, Franken, 2007). Many Americans live with the burden of an unsatisfying job as well as a stressful workplace. An online survey of 1,848 people in the United States, conducted by the American Psychological Association, found that 74 percent of

While labor can and is often seen as work that is done physically, it is also seen as an act which necessitates using mind and soul. Depending on the area in which an individual works, it can lean towards using all three – body, mind, and soul – to be successful. It is at this point that Emotional Labor (Hochschild, 1983) begins to take its place in the work environment. Emotional Labor is using self to perform work where an employee creates a pleasant atmosphere by giving good customer service. The ability to use self as a means to perform better on the job may have larger implications than we know of. This paper will look at different ideas which contribute to Emotional Labor as a workplace construct and the effects it has on the

According to Elkin and Rosch (1990) workplace related stress in a major problem in the U.S. and it creates a major expense for corporations. Koeske, Kirk, and Koeske (1993) indicate that all jobs have some level of stress but jobs that are in the human services have additional stressors because they “derive from intense involvement in the lives of others”. (p.319). They also refer to the type of stress experienced by individuals working in human services as “burnout” (Koeske, Kirk, and Koeske, 1993, p.319). Another factor that can influence our stress level is how we handle life’s demands. There are different ways of reacting to the situations we face every day of our lives. We have all heard of expressions such as ‘road rage’ and ‘going postal’. These are terms that we have come to identified with violent reactions to stressors caused by situations all of us face every day. How many of us have experiences in the road that

Hochechild states the work which requires employees hide or change their real emotions, and continue to ‘smile and nod heads’ even receiving critical feedback is emotional labour (Mind tools, 2016). In other words, emotional labour is a kind of work that employees are required to show one or more specific emotions in the workplace so that they could promote organizational goals. According to Hochedchild’s opinion, emotions of individuals start to separate, emotions are used as productions by organisations and enterprises so that individuals are alienated (Xiong and Zhang, 2010). Employees disguise their emotions to satisfy customers in order to make more benefits for the company. Emotional labour can step over distinct vocations, stratums and functions. Hochschild thinks to take part in emotional labour for a long time period can cause mood disorder. However, Ashfortht and Humphrey