| Description |
The current study sought to understand the communicative construction of emotion in nonprofit organizations. Two research questions asked how nonprofit workers communicatively construct their emotion regarding the nature of nonprofit work and concerning their relationships with other nonprofit workers. Seventeen nonprofit workers were interviewed within one organization. Findings include defining, contextualizing, and constructing emotion explicitly in relation to the nature of nonprofit work. Concerning their relationships with other nonprofit workers, nonprofit workers relate to the organization, construct identities, and construct relationships with one another. The current work qualitatively adds to organizational communication literature, particularly at the intersection of nonprofit work, workers, and emotion. Most importantly, this study complicates current conceptualizations of emotion in nonprofit organizations by bringing in ideas of affect theory. |
