Organizational behavior in historical perspective

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Theory and practice of organizational behavior bring us many promising concepts and skills: Coaching, transactional analysis, one-minute management, self-managing teams, authentic self-presentation, 360° feed-back, etc..  Also a wide arsenal of skill-training has been developed: Problem solving, feed-back skills, decision making, negotiating, effective leadership; to name only a few.

In all these areas the handling of emotions seems rather neglected. I will describe how  a few centuries ago emotions in the workplace were much more visible. People experienced great difficulties in coping with fierce even outrageous impulses. We have tamed these impulses. But they are still of critical importance for organizational behavior.  Moreover our manners and standards of emotion ...

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