Stephen Fineman
Biographic Data
| ID | 385516 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Stephen Fineman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Stephen |
| FAMILY NAME | Fineman |
| SIGNATURE | FINEMAN S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bath |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 23 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 81 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 23 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1975 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Work
Work: A Very Short Introduction tells the story of work — how we strive for security, reward, and often, meaning. The image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question: 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'. Work, whether it be paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory, is woven into the fabric of human society. For many it forms our identity. For others it is a tedious necessity. What is 'work'? What c…
The emotional organization
List of Contributors. 1. Introducing the Emotional Organization: Stephen Fineman (University of Bath). Part I: Emotional Arenas. The Hospital. 2. Me, Morphine and Humanity: Experiencing the Emotional Community on Ward 8: Sharon Bolton (The University of Strathclyde). The Prison. 3.Power, Paradox, Social Support and Prestige: A Critical Approach to Addressing Correctional Officer Burnout: Sarah Tracy (Arizona State University). Crisis Work. 4. Rap…
Cold Intimacies
Themed articles
Getting the Measure of Emotion - and the Cautionary Tale of Emotional Intelligence
This article examines critically the recent growth of emotion measurement in organizational behaviour. The epistemological and phenomenological consequences of psychometrically ‘boxing’ emotion are, it is argued, problematic and restrictive. This may be seen in the power and professional prestige it affords to the measurers and in the consequences to those classified by measurement. This is particularly so when an emotion is presented as key to p…
Understanding Emotion at Work
This introductory text on emotions is aimed specifically at students of management and organization studies. Written accessibly, it avoids pat prescriptions, but leaves the reader with challenging questions about the intrinsic nature of emotions to the design and management of organizations
Fashioning the Environment
Should we regard `greening' as a management fashion? While green concerns are prevalent in political and industrial rhetoric, how is greening made to appear attractive and productive to organizational actors who plainly feel just the opposite? This paper explores the social and emotional architecture of greening, and its tensions and contradictions. Against a background of `received' theory on management fashions, it examines the institutional co…
Emotional Arenas Revisited
Emotion in Organizations
The Emotions of Control
Processes of control remain central to managerial and critical theories of organization, but their inherently emotional form has been largely neglected. The experience and expression of emotions are more than simply objects and outcomes of control, they also shape its context, processes, and consequences. Drawing upon observations of interpersonal encounters between environmental regulatory inspectors and industrial managers in the U.K., an emoti…
Country ways
Moralizing the Environment: Countryside change, farming and pollution, by P. Lowe, P. J. Clark, S. Seymore and N. Ward. London: UCL Press, 1997
Experiencing Organizations
Functions and Ceremonies
Paradigms of Organizations
This paper addresses a `paradigmatic gap' between current thinking on the nature of behaviour in organizations and the introductory organization behaviour textbook. It is argued that recent academic discourses, influenced by postmodernism and feminism, present organizations as fragile, unpredictable and discontinuous. However, the traditional organizational behaviour textbook continues to present an image of a solid, ordered and predictable organ…
Unemployment, Crime and Offenders
This book has been produced by a research team from NACRO (National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders). Readers familiar with NACRO publications will feel a bit cheated because a large part of its solid empirical centre has been published elsewhere ( Unemployment and Magistrates' Courts , NACRO, 1987) — in a more user‐friendly, and much less‐expensive, form
An interactionist approach to measuring anxiety at work
This paper describes the development of a measure of work anxiety. The construction of the measure was guided by the interactionist position that behaviour is determined by situations in interaction with individual responses. In developing the measure it was also possible to test two hypotheses relating to interactional theory and a third hypothesis about whether previous experience of situations leads them to be seen as more, or less, threatenin…
Role stress—a methodological trap
This study explores the notion that many existing studies which show moderate relationships between role variables and stress symptoms are doing so because of the operational similarity of independent and dependent variables. It was predicted that the removal of such an artefact by clearly separating the two sets of variables would result in a nil relationship. Matched ‘cases’ and ‘controls’ were compared in two different organizations. The indep…
A Psychosocial Model of Stress and Its Application to Managerial Unemployment
This paper describes a model of psychosocial stress attempting to explain the psychological response state of stress and physical disease (strain) related to stress, from the consequences of an individual's failure to master self-threatening problems. The model is phenomenological, focusing on an individual's perceived organizational and nonorganizational demands, and how these are modified by personality factors. Behavioral approaches for dealin…
Teaching Organisational Behaviour through discussion groups
(1978). Teaching Organisational Behaviour through discussion groups. Studies in Higher Education: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 45-62
The achievement motive construct and its measurement
The achievement motive (nAch) is a construct which has attracted many applied researchers. The present paper reviews the nature and conceptualization of nAch, focusing on the considerable number of different projective and questionnaire instruments which have been evolved for its measurement. The instruments are examined for their convergent validity, which is found to be very poor. Reasons for this are explained in terms of the psychometric char…
The influence of perceived job climate on the relationship between managerial achievement motivation and performance
A number of researchers have looked for a direct relationship between a manager's need for achievement ( n Ach) and his performance, but with mixed success. Few studies, however, have considered the moderating effect of perceived climate on the n Ach–performance relationship. In the present investigation two such hypotheses are tested. Firstly, it was expected that a positive correlation between n Ach and performance would be more likely to occur…
Reply to Nelson's Letter to the Editor on The Work Preference Questionnaire
The Work Preference Questionnaire
Few existing measures of need for achievement are suitable for use on British managerial populations. This is because most scales fail on one or more of four criteria of acceptability: managerial standardization, industrial acceptability, control for social desirability and faking responses, and psychometric adequacy. The construction of an achievement motive measure, the Work Preference Questionnaire (WPQ), is described, which attempts to meet t…
The Emotions of Control
Processes of control remain central to managerial and critical theories of organization, but their inherently emotional form has been largely neglected. The experience and expression of emotions are more than simply objects and outcomes of control, they also shape its context, processes, and consequences. Drawing upon observations of interpersonal encounters between environmental regulatory inspectors and industrial managers in the U.K., an emoti…
Getting the Measure of Emotion - and the Cautionary Tale of Emotional Intelligence
This article examines critically the recent growth of emotion measurement in organizational behaviour. The epistemological and phenomenological consequences of psychometrically ‘boxing’ emotion are, it is argued, problematic and restrictive. This may be seen in the power and professional prestige it affords to the measurers and in the consequences to those classified by measurement. This is particularly so when an emotion is presented as key to p…
The achievement motive construct and its measurement
The achievement motive (nAch) is a construct which has attracted many applied researchers. The present paper reviews the nature and conceptualization of nAch, focusing on the considerable number of different projective and questionnaire instruments which have been evolved for its measurement. The instruments are examined for their convergent validity, which is found to be very poor. Reasons for this are explained in terms of the psychometric char…
A Psychosocial Model of Stress and Its Application to Managerial Unemployment
This paper describes a model of psychosocial stress attempting to explain the psychological response state of stress and physical disease (strain) related to stress, from the consequences of an individual's failure to master self-threatening problems. The model is phenomenological, focusing on an individual's perceived organizational and nonorganizational demands, and how these are modified by personality factors. Behavioral approaches for dealin…
Role stress—a methodological trap
This study explores the notion that many existing studies which show moderate relationships between role variables and stress symptoms are doing so because of the operational similarity of independent and dependent variables. It was predicted that the removal of such an artefact by clearly separating the two sets of variables would result in a nil relationship. Matched ‘cases’ and ‘controls’ were compared in two different organizations. The indep…
Themed articles
Cold Intimacies
Unemployment, Crime and Offenders
This book has been produced by a research team from NACRO (National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders). Readers familiar with NACRO publications will feel a bit cheated because a large part of its solid empirical centre has been published elsewhere ( Unemployment and Magistrates' Courts , NACRO, 1987) — in a more user‐friendly, and much less‐expensive, form
The influence of perceived job climate on the relationship between managerial achievement motivation and performance
A number of researchers have looked for a direct relationship between a manager's need for achievement ( n Ach) and his performance, but with mixed success. Few studies, however, have considered the moderating effect of perceived climate on the n Ach–performance relationship. In the present investigation two such hypotheses are tested. Firstly, it was expected that a positive correlation between n Ach and performance would be more likely to occur…
Reply to Nelson's Letter to the Editor on The Work Preference Questionnaire
The Work Preference Questionnaire
Few existing measures of need for achievement are suitable for use on British managerial populations. This is because most scales fail on one or more of four criteria of acceptability: managerial standardization, industrial acceptability, control for social desirability and faking responses, and psychometric adequacy. The construction of an achievement motive measure, the Work Preference Questionnaire (WPQ), is described, which attempts to meet t…
The achievement motive construct and its measurement
The achievement motive (nAch) is a construct which has attracted many applied researchers. The present paper reviews the nature and conceptualization of nAch, focusing on the considerable number of different projective and questionnaire instruments which have been evolved for its measurement. The instruments are examined for their convergent validity, which is found to be very poor. Reasons for this are explained in terms of the psychometric char…
Teaching Organisational Behaviour through discussion groups
(1978). Teaching Organisational Behaviour through discussion groups. Studies in Higher Education: Vol. 3, No. 1, pp. 45-62
A Psychosocial Model of Stress and Its Application to Managerial Unemployment
This paper describes a model of psychosocial stress attempting to explain the psychological response state of stress and physical disease (strain) related to stress, from the consequences of an individual's failure to master self-threatening problems. The model is phenomenological, focusing on an individual's perceived organizational and nonorganizational demands, and how these are modified by personality factors. Behavioral approaches for dealin…
Role stress—a methodological trap
This study explores the notion that many existing studies which show moderate relationships between role variables and stress symptoms are doing so because of the operational similarity of independent and dependent variables. It was predicted that the removal of such an artefact by clearly separating the two sets of variables would result in a nil relationship. Matched ‘cases’ and ‘controls’ were compared in two different organizations. The indep…
An interactionist approach to measuring anxiety at work
This paper describes the development of a measure of work anxiety. The construction of the measure was guided by the interactionist position that behaviour is determined by situations in interaction with individual responses. In developing the measure it was also possible to test two hypotheses relating to interactional theory and a third hypothesis about whether previous experience of situations leads them to be seen as more, or less, threatenin…
Unemployment, Crime and Offenders
This book has been produced by a research team from NACRO (National Association for the Care and Resettlement of Offenders). Readers familiar with NACRO publications will feel a bit cheated because a large part of its solid empirical centre has been published elsewhere ( Unemployment and Magistrates' Courts , NACRO, 1987) — in a more user‐friendly, and much less‐expensive, form
Paradigms of Organizations
This paper addresses a `paradigmatic gap' between current thinking on the nature of behaviour in organizations and the introductory organization behaviour textbook. It is argued that recent academic discourses, influenced by postmodernism and feminism, present organizations as fragile, unpredictable and discontinuous. However, the traditional organizational behaviour textbook continues to present an image of a solid, ordered and predictable organ…
Experiencing Organizations
Functions and Ceremonies
Country ways
Moralizing the Environment: Countryside change, farming and pollution, by P. Lowe, P. J. Clark, S. Seymore and N. Ward. London: UCL Press, 1997
The Emotions of Control
Processes of control remain central to managerial and critical theories of organization, but their inherently emotional form has been largely neglected. The experience and expression of emotions are more than simply objects and outcomes of control, they also shape its context, processes, and consequences. Drawing upon observations of interpersonal encounters between environmental regulatory inspectors and industrial managers in the U.K., an emoti…
Emotional Arenas Revisited
Emotion in Organizations
Fashioning the Environment
Should we regard `greening' as a management fashion? While green concerns are prevalent in political and industrial rhetoric, how is greening made to appear attractive and productive to organizational actors who plainly feel just the opposite? This paper explores the social and emotional architecture of greening, and its tensions and contradictions. Against a background of `received' theory on management fashions, it examines the institutional co…
Understanding Emotion at Work
This introductory text on emotions is aimed specifically at students of management and organization studies. Written accessibly, it avoids pat prescriptions, but leaves the reader with challenging questions about the intrinsic nature of emotions to the design and management of organizations
Getting the Measure of Emotion - and the Cautionary Tale of Emotional Intelligence
This article examines critically the recent growth of emotion measurement in organizational behaviour. The epistemological and phenomenological consequences of psychometrically ‘boxing’ emotion are, it is argued, problematic and restrictive. This may be seen in the power and professional prestige it affords to the measurers and in the consequences to those classified by measurement. This is particularly so when an emotion is presented as key to p…
Themed articles
The emotional organization
List of Contributors. 1. Introducing the Emotional Organization: Stephen Fineman (University of Bath). Part I: Emotional Arenas. The Hospital. 2. Me, Morphine and Humanity: Experiencing the Emotional Community on Ward 8: Sharon Bolton (The University of Strathclyde). The Prison. 3.Power, Paradox, Social Support and Prestige: A Critical Approach to Addressing Correctional Officer Burnout: Sarah Tracy (Arizona State University). Crisis Work. 4. Rap…
Cold Intimacies
Work
Work: A Very Short Introduction tells the story of work — how we strive for security, reward, and often, meaning. The image of a job captures our imagination from an early age, usually prompted by the question: 'What do you want to be when you grow up?'. Work, whether it be paid, unpaid, voluntary, or obligatory, is woven into the fabric of human society. For many it forms our identity. For others it is a tedious necessity. What is 'work'? What c…
Psychology (17 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Sociology (11 works) · Computer Science (8 works) · Political science (8 works) · Management and Organizational Studies (5 works) · Social Psychology (5 works) · Artificial Intelligence (4 works) · Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (4 works) · Organizational behavior (4 works)