Emotions at Work within Organizations

Abstract

This article, written in consistency with the pedagogical personalist perspective and following a critical-argumentative methodological approach, aims at investigating some needs, problems, and emotional effects of organized work (paying prevalent attention to productive organizations) and highlighting the importance of workers’ emotional training. Specifically, at first, the article lingers on a criticism of the supposed equivalence between the emergence of the emotional dimension and the “psycho-welfarist deceit”, then focuses on the exigencies of psychological presence, on the relational emotional dynamics and on the repercussions of these emotional plots and other ones on the persons who work inside the organizations and, finally, emphasizes the value, the goals and the modes of an emotional training responding to the treated issues.