Monday 26 March 2012

Emotions in organisational research in nursing homes

an article by Elisabeth Reitinger published in International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion Volume 4 Number 3/4 (2011)

Abstract

Emotions clearly play an important role in living and working in nursing homes. Therefore research in cooperation with nursing homes or other long term care settings has to find a way to deal with these phenomena.

This paper presents emotions as an integrated part of doing organisational research. The paper draws on transdisciplinary collaborative research with nursing homes on gender, ethical decisions and needs management.

Feelings and emotions are core dimensions for knowledge construction and theory building on these issues. Working within a qualitative paradigm and a relational approach, it will be argued that care ethics serves as important source of basic principles.

Hazel’s comment:
Until I read this I had not thought of ethics as an integral part of emotions at work.


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