International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion
- Editor in Chief
- Prof. Mosad Zineldin
- ISSN online
- 1740-8946
- ISSN print
- 1740-8938
- 4 issues per year
- CiteScore 0.9 (2022)

The role of emotion, and its relationship to the body and aesthetics, has emerged as a significant area of research in the field of management and organisational analysis. IJWOE is unique in that it seeks to draw together different perspectives on the roles that emotion, embodiment and aesthetics increasingly play within the contemporary organisation and beyond. In doing so, it aims to shape and define emerging debates around these issues within both the academic and practitioner communities.
Topics covered include
- Emotional labour and emotion work
- Emotional intelligence
- Emotion and social organisation
- Emotional and embodied nature of research
- Play and pleasure at work and beyond
- Organisational corporeality
- Body work
- Aesthetic labour
- Political economy of emotions at work and society at large
- Changing nature of work and organisation
- Commodification and exploitation
- Gender and sexuality
- Control and resistance
- Performativity
- Organisational, cultural, economic inequality
Objectives
The aim of IJWOE is to act as a focal point for the dissemination of theoretical and empirical developments in the area of emotion, embodiment and related organisational and socio-cultural phenomena. It seeks contributions from diverse disciplinary fields including management and organisational analysis, gender studies, sociology, psychology, political economy, and more practitioner-orientated traditions such as human resource management and occupational health amongst others. It welcomes research from a range of methodological perspectives and aims to communicate with both academics and practitioners in the field. As an international journal, it also aims to explore how emotional and embodied processes are experienced, managed, controlled and resisted across a range of national and cultural contexts.
Readership
IJWOE will be of interest to academics, researchers, practitioners and policy makers and all those with an interest in the emotional, embodied, aesthetic and political dimensions of work, organisation and society.
Contents
IJWOE includes original academic papers and book reviews. There will be occasional special reviews devoted to important topics and themes in the area as well as guest editions. Shorter research notes and dialogue pieces are also welcomed.
IJWOE is indexed in:
- Scopus (Elsevier)
- Academic OneFile (Gale)
- cnpLINKer (CNPIEC)
- Expanded Academic ASAP (Gale)
- OneFile Business (Gale)
- General OneFile (Gale)
- Google Scholar
- Info Trac (Gale)
- J-Gate
- ProQuest Advanced Technologies Database with Aerospace
IJWOE is listed in:
- National Agency for Evaluation of the University and Research System (ANVUR)
- Australian Business Deans Council Journal Rankings List
Editor in Chief
- Zineldin, Mosad, Linnaeus University, Sweden
(mosad.zineldinlnu.se)
Book Review Editor
- Lee-Treweek, Geraldine, Birmingham City University, UK
Editorial Board Members
- Altman, Yochanan, Middlesex University, UK
- Ashkanasy, Neal, The University of Queensland, Australia
- Banerjee, Bobby, University of Western Sydney, Australia
- Bolton, Sharon, University of Stirling, UK
- Brewis, Joanna, University of Leicester, UK
- Briner, Rob, University of Bath, UK
- Brooks, Ann, Australian Catholic University, Australia
- Brundin, Ethel, Jönköping University, Sweden
- Colgan, Fiona, Birkbeck University of London, UK
- Cornelius, Nelarine, Bradford University, UK
- Cutcher, Leanne, University of Sydney, Australia
- Dean, Deborah, University of Warwick, UK
- Dicke, Willemijn, TU Delft, Netherlands
- Fineman, Steve, University of Bath, UK
- Härtel, Charmine E. J., University of Queensland, Australia
- Hochschild, Arlie Russell, University of California at Berkeley, USA
- James, Nicky, Glasgow Caledonian University, UK
- Kagan, Carolyn, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
- Kiefer, Tina, University of Warwick, UK
- Knights, David, University of Keele, UK
- Lewis, Patricia, University of Kent, UK
- Llewellyn, Nick, University of Warwick, UK
- Loewenthal, Del, Roehampton University, UK
- McColl-Kennedy, Janet R., University of Queensland, Australia
- Mills, Albert, St Mary's University, Canada
- Ordóñez de Pablos, Patricia, Universidad de Oviedo, Spain
- Pettinger, Lynne, Warwick University, UK
- Shrivastava, Paul, Bucknell University, USA
- Simpson, Ruth, Brunel University, UK
- Smith, Pam, University of Surrey, UK
- Smith, Stephen, Brunel University, UK
- Sparks, Beverley, Griffith University, Australia
- Stjernberg, Torbjörn, Handelshögskolan Vid Göteborgs Universitet, Sweden
- Sturdy, Andrew, University of Bristol, UK
- Van Iterson, Ad, Maastricht University, Netherlands
- Ward, Jenna, University of York, UK
- Warren, Samantha, University of Surrey, UK
- Westwood, Robert, University of Queensland, Australia
- Wolfram-Cox, Julie, Deakin University, Australia
- Wolkowitz, Carol, University of Warwick, UK
A few essentials for publishing in this journal
- Submitted articles should not have been previously published or be currently under consideration for publication elsewhere.
- Conference papers may only be submitted if the paper has been completely re-written (more details available here) and the author has cleared any necessary permissions with the copyright owner if it has been previously copyrighted.
- Briefs and research notes are not published in this journal.
- All our articles go through a double-blind review process.
- All authors must declare they have read and agreed to the content of the submitted article. A full statement of our Ethical Guidelines for Authors (PDF) is available.
- There are no charges for publishing with Inderscience, unless you require your article to be Open Access (OA). You can find more information on OA here.
- All articles for this journal must be submitted using our online submissions system.
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Submission process
Journal news
Positive stress leads to service success
27 April, 2023
A study in the International Journal of Work Organisation and Emotion, has looked at the effects of "positive" stress among frontline journalists. The findings suggest that this type of stress, so-called eustress, can help such workers handle the emotional challenges they face in their jobs... Juliet E. Ikhide of the Department of Business Administration at the Eastern Mediterranean University in Famagusta, Turkey and Oluwatobi A. Ogunmokun of the Rabat Business School at the International University of Rabat in Morocco surveyed frontline journalists, which they classify as service employees in the media sector, using email. The team analyzed the data using the Job Demands-Resources (J-DR) theoretical framework [...]
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