(Universidad Icesi, 2016-01-01) Bedoya Dorado, Cristian; García Solarte, Mónica
Drawing on Deming’s proposals for eliminating fear from the workplace, several investigations have
found this emotion to be negative for workers and organizations. This article aims to identify the negative
effects that fear generates among workers and organizations. To do this, a literature review of studies of
fear in organizations and its implications for work was carried out. The effects of fear were classified into
worker and organization and their implications were discussed, from which it was found that identifying
the effects of fear in the organization contributes to the understanding of the role that subjectivity plays
in organizational behavior and operation.
