What is your experience?
Welcome,
It seems to me that many organisations can be hard places in which to be. Instead of feeling like healthy, loving places, they become soulless and loveless places where the prevailing emotional undercurrent is one of fear. I am curious about why that is and what it might be like to be in an organisation which was loving? I wonder if such organisations exist, or whether people feel this only in certain circumstances? I wonder what conditions might be required to enable love to flourish rather than fear?
So....
Do you have any thoughts?
Is it too simple to talk about love and fear as polar opposites?
What might be a better way of describing the emotional culture or tone of an organisation?
Would you have a preference for a loving rather than fearful environment?
What is your experience of working environments?
It seems to me that many organisations can be hard places in which to be. Instead of feeling like healthy, loving places, they become soulless and loveless places where the prevailing emotional undercurrent is one of fear. I am curious about why that is and what it might be like to be in an organisation which was loving? I wonder if such organisations exist, or whether people feel this only in certain circumstances? I wonder what conditions might be required to enable love to flourish rather than fear?
So....
Do you have any thoughts?
Is it too simple to talk about love and fear as polar opposites?
What might be a better way of describing the emotional culture or tone of an organisation?
Would you have a preference for a loving rather than fearful environment?
What is your experience of working environments?
posted by st at 10:52 AM
3 Comments:
Hi Stuart
Here is an interesting link for you on the role of positive emotions:
http://www.psych.upenn.edu/courses/psych160_Fall2004/fredrickson.pdf
Alper
I am interested that you posit love and fear as opposites - my immediate thought was hate is the polar opposite of love. I imagine that in the most loving of situations fear is an essential component - fear of losing that iwhich is cherished for example .. yet I am not denying that there is something about the way organisations are that is not entirely as it may be .. i cannot name this yet and will ponder fasrther
Hi Stuart,
I pose you a question. Do you think that the degree of love - if we can speak in these terms, establishing a scale for love - in organizations has to deal with the length of time people stay at the same job and at the same company? In other words, do you think people can construct "love" as they have enough time to gain confidence on each other or it has mostly to deal with the environment you work, with the style of the staff you work with? What do you think it is more important for the construction of this concept within the work environment?
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