Dear Colleagues,

The study of emotional communication in organizations has gained momentum over the last 30 years as researchers and practitioners recognize how emotions shape and are shaped by organizations and members. The ways organizational members communicate and learn emotional rules through organizational socialization processes, perform emotions through emotional labor, manage their own and others’ emotions through emotional intelligence, and spread emotions through emotional contagion all influence member and organizational sustainability. Importantly emotional communication in organizations has sustainability implications for member commitment, satisfaction, organizational citizenship behaviors, engagement, and mental and physical health. Further, emotional communication can create positive organizational climates where employees and organizations thrive or toxic cultures that tolerate or even encourage harassment and bullying that threatens long-term sustainability.

This Special Issue focuses on emotional communication in organizations to further understanding of this important topic and generate practical solutions for organizations and their members to promote sustainability. Submission topics may consider, but are not limited, to the following:

• How emotional communication organizes and is organized by organizational and member processes;
• What are important leader and/or follower emotional communication behaviors and practices that contribute to or disrupt sustainable workplace practices?
• In what ways are nondominant organizational members regulated similarly or differently in their emotional communication and what implications does this regulation have for sustainability?
• How is emotional communication enhanced or disrupted by the use of communication technologies in organizations in terms of sustainability?
• What are important cultural, subcultural, intercultural, and crosscultural factors that influence emotional communication and sustainability in the workplace?
• How do organizational and employee uses of emotional communication relate to mental and physical health and long-term sustainability? Which practices are more and/or less beneficial to maintaining a healthy workforce?
• What are the implications of emotional communication over time in shaping workplace practices and experiences?
• How can existing emotional communication theories (e.g., emotional labor, emotional intelligence emotional contagion, etc.) be extended or nuanced to enhance understanding of sustainable organizational practices?
• How do emotional communication practices shape the viability of innovative work arrangements and process flows for organizations and members?

A variety of methodological approaches and disciplinary/interdisciplinary focuses are welcomed. Submissions may include original research articles, organizational case studies, or comprehensive reviews. All submissions will undergo a rigorous peer-review process with the aim of distributing research results, developments, and applications in a timely manner to a widespread audience.

Dr. Sarah Riforgiate
Dr. Shawna Malvini Redden
Dr. Satoris Howes
Dr. Tim Huffman
Dr. Stacy Tye-Williams
Guest Editors

Manuscript Submission Information

Manuscripts should be submitted online at www.mdpi.com by registering and logging in to this website. Once you are registered, click here to go to the submission form. Manuscripts can be submitted until the deadline. All papers will be peer-reviewed. Accepted papers will be published continuously in the journal (as soon as accepted) and will be listed together on the special issue website. Research articles, review articles as well as short communications are invited. For planned papers, a title and short abstract (about 100 words) can be sent to the Editorial Office for announcement on this website.

Submitted manuscripts should not have been published previously, nor be under consideration for publication elsewhere (except conference proceedings papers). All manuscripts are thoroughly refereed through a single-blind peer-review process. A guide for authors and other relevant information for submission of manuscripts is available on the Instructions for Authors page. Sustainability is an international peer-reviewed open access semimonthly journal published by MDPI.

Please visit the Instructions for Authors page before submitting a manuscript. The Article Processing Charge (APC) for publication in this open access journal is 1900 CHF (Swiss Francs). Submitted papers should be well formatted and use good English. Authors may use MDPI's English editing service prior to publication or during author revisions.

• emotional communication
• sustainable organizational communication
• employee emotional sustainability
• sustainable emotional labor practices
• emotional intelligence sustainability
• sustainable organizational assimilation practices