"Watch out, here comes feeling!" Women executives and emotion work

International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion

Volumn 1, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 48-66

  Ross Smith, Anne ^a   Chesterman, Colleen ^b   Peters, Margaret ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^b Women's Executive Development Program   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Critical mass; Emotion work; Emotional intelligence; Gender based; Masculinity reason and femininity emotion; Mothering; Senior women executives

Indexed keywords

EID: 33747660272     PISSN: 17408938     EISSN: 17408946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1504/IJWOE.2005.007326     Document Type: Article

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