Friday, May 24, 2019

The Managed Heart: Emotional Management vs Emotional Labor

Can a persons heart be controlled? Do all people go have some form of ablaze management or activated labor in their lives? In the book, The Managed Heart, written by Arlie Hochschild , discusses the issues of excited labor and emotional management. In the book, it describes the difference between the two issues and gives Hochschilds opinion on those issues.The first issue is emotional management. This is where the fight attendants learn how to deal with certain situations that they king encounter. Basically, they are taught to manage their emotions and look at their situation from the other side. By doing this, the flight attendants can create a happy and more comfort fitting background knowledge for the passengers. On page 113 in the book, it states that the fight attendants should imagine a reason to excuse an obnoxious or unruly passenger. This is what Delta teaches emotional management.The other issue is emotional labor. The use of emotional management is emotional labor. They flight attendants use surface acting in everyday work life. They are there to make the passenger feel comfortable and happy. This is a cover sheet for the flight attendants emotions. They are in a way bottling up their feelings to produce another feeling. The problem with emotional labor and surface acting are they become a part of that person. Hochschild thinks that this is a bad thing because one willing never break remote from the emotional labor and in turn have trouble expressing their inner feelings, (deep acting) in their private lives.In summary, emotional management is emotional labor. Emotional management is the learning how to deal with situations. Emotional labor is the actual use of the emotional management. Learning emotional management is helpful, but can affect that persons lifestyle. When they use emotional labor, they are hiding their inner feelings to create are better atmosphere for others. People using this might never be able to distinguish the differenc e between their surface acting and deep acting. Hochschilds sees this as a problem for the people affected by this emotion manipulator. This will affect their friends, family, and the rest of society.

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