Relationships and emotions at school

Abstract

The type of relationships between the members of an organisation, their emotional balance and aesthetics have influence on effective and steady development of an organisation. If there is working friendly environment in an organisation, only then is it able to effectively function, change and improve. However, emotions in organisations are often ignored and disregarded, as it is sought to artificially separate emotions from logical thinking and reasoning; sometimes emotions are even understood and valued as basically detrimental. Nevertheless, contemporary organizations gradually pay more and more attention to expression of emotions and search for means to regard them, incorporate and use in the most productive way. Talking about school as an organisation, Hargreaves (1999) notes that even its structure depends on resources and inside relationships, which can facilitate work or make it more difficult, turn it into a productive or useless one, leading to satisfaction or spoiling one’s mood. Pedagogues experience various emotions in their job every day that are related to the education process or communication with their colleges. Physical environment at school also has effect on pedagogues’ state of mind.[...]