Management Today
  • Year: 2013
  • Volume: 3
  • Issue: 3

Motivation, emotions, and leadership: The silent side of management

Associate Professor, Commerce & Management, Career College, and Visiting Faculty, Career Institute of International Management, India

Online published on 15 February, 2019.

Abstract

The article argues for considering bodily and emotional dimensions into an extended understanding of demotivation in organization. Based on phenomenal indicators and signs and motivational barriers, demotivation is described as a multidimensional phenomenon. Following an experiential “demotivation-syndrome“, a phenomenology of embodiment and emotions will be outlined, allowing a more comprehensive understanding of demotivation. Finally, some practical implications for preventing and overcoming demotivation are presented. By concluding, some research perspectives of further phenomenological investigations of demotivation will be discussed.

Keywords

Demonization, Embodiment, Emotion, Phenomenology