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TY - JOUR
T1 - Work: What is it good for?
T2 - Almost everything!
AU - Humphrey, Ronald
AU - Miao, Chao
AU - Qian, Shanshan
PY - 2019/12/28
Y1 - 2019/12/28
N2 - Mumby (2019), in his provocative article, playfully asks, “Work: What is it good for?”, and answers his own question by stating, “Absolutely nothing!” We reach quite a different answer to his question and feel that work is good for “almost everything.” In particular, we want to address comments that he made about the negative effects of emotional labor and about organizational attempts to regulate employees’ emotions. Indeed, we feel that the overwhelming evidence is that work is good for people’s emotional states and their overall well-being.
AB - Mumby (2019), in his provocative article, playfully asks, “Work: What is it good for?”, and answers his own question by stating, “Absolutely nothing!” We reach quite a different answer to his question and feel that work is good for “almost everything.” In particular, we want to address comments that he made about the negative effects of emotional labor and about organizational attempts to regulate employees’ emotions. Indeed, we feel that the overwhelming evidence is that work is good for people’s emotional states and their overall well-being.
U2 - 10.1017/iop.2019.91
DO - 10.1017/iop.2019.91
M3 - Editorial
VL - 12
SP - 460
EP - 462
JO - Industrial and Organizational Psychology
JF - Industrial and Organizational Psychology
SN - 1754-9426
IS - 4
ER -