This article aims to identify and analyze the scientific production in the field of management with regard to studies that address the theme of pleasure and pain. We selected the items found in CD-ROMs related to the meetings of the National Association of Graduate Business Administration (EnANPAD) in the period 2000 to 2010, a total of 7,962 studies, considering all the academic divisions of that meeting. Out of the total of articles submitted, only 26 set out to address the issue of pleasure and pain at work, published in the annals of the academic divisions Relations Personnel Management and Labor (20), Organizational Studies (4) and the Teaching and Research Administration and Accounting (2) showing an expected distribution of the subject location. The sample was chosen intentionally, for the studies focus on pleasure and pain, what was clearly stated in the articles. The analysis was based on the following variables: science content, most cited authors and the conclusions of the studies analyzed. It was observed that the experiences of pleasure are connected to issues such as recoganition, flexibility, and power challenges. On the other hand, the experiences of suffering are linked to issues such as organizational context, interpersonal relations and rigidity of rules and standards organizations. At the end of this work, it can be concluded that the feeling of pleasure and pain is related to a hybrid combination of factors that depending on the subjectivity of the subject can become a pathology.
Pleasure; Pain; Work; Bibliometric
