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As discussed in various literature, emotional labor can be described as an emotion regulation which creates publicly observable facial and bodily expressions. As we know, the personality of the teachers, especially with the elementary school student, are closely related to training and education. It is very vital for the teachers to be emotionally stable as it affects the learning behavior, techniques, and other important aspects of education. According to "Global Management Review" by Mittal and Shreshth (2011), they define emotional labor as "a suppression of emotions as a part of his/her work". They also argue that the individual and organizational outcomes are closely related with the emotions in that particular work place. One of the interesting findings of the study was that the good support from the supervisors helps in reducing the burnout, while good peer support increases the burnout symptoms. The study also points out that the females are more attached to their work as compared to females (Mittal & Shreshth, 2011).

According to their research, the researchers found out that emotional labor is significantly related to emotional exhaustion. Surface acting, when trying to feel or show the emotion not actually felt but is necessary for to perform job can lead to stress.

We humans are learning day by day. The formal education system has come a long way when it comes to prepare young adults to get into the workforce. Although we teach our kids most of the "performance techniques", we often hear that people are not happy at their job which they work hard to get to (Mastracci, Newman, & Guy, 2010). There could be various reasons behind it, but to exclude emotional exhaustion would not be a good approach. Careers in law enfo...

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...hat managing emotion or voluntarily controlling one's emotion for pay might be very detrimental to the employee (Grandy, 2000). The article also talks about the relationship between emotional labor and various well-being outcomes. The first outcome is "burnout". It is a stress outcome, commonly found in employees working in a service industries. It occurs when an employee becomes overly emotionally involved with the customers but is not able to replenish spent emotions. Article also claims that this work of her "supports the prediction that emotional labor will relate to burnout" (Grandy, 2000).

Another outcome that the article mentions is "job satisfactions". The article claims that due to the use of different definition of emotional labor, the empirical research on the relation between emotional labor and job satisfactions has been contradictory (Grandy, 2000).