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Introduction : Emotions and negativity
No full textPurpose: This introduction sets the stage for the book theme, “Emotions and Negativity”, by reviewing the early work on negative emotions and by discussing the impact of the Covid pandemic on people’s moods and emotions. It discusses how most of the chapters in this book were first presented as conference papers at the Twelfth International Conference on Emotions and Worklife (“Emonet XII”). It then highlights to the key contributions from each of the chapters. Study design/methodology/approach: This gives the overview organizational structure of the book and explains the 4 major parts of the book. It then relates each chapter to the theme of each part and discusses the key contributions of each chapter. Findings: The introduction concludes by observing that the chapters offer a variety of practical solutions to negative emotions that should be of use to both practitioners and academicians. Originality/value: The chapters investigate under-researched topics, and thus make original and important new contributions. Although under-researched, the topics they explore have a major impact on people’s lives. Thus, these chapters add considerable value to the field
Formal Performance Appraisal Interviews: Can They Really Be Objective and Are They Useful Anyway?
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Solutions to Negative Emotions
Full text linkPurpose: In this summative chapter, the volume editors discuss some of the “antidotes” to negative emotions that the authors in this volume have set out. Design: The summary is arranged in five sections: (1) Negative emotions as learning opportunities; (2) attributions and cognitive reframing; (3) importance of emotional intelligence; (4) leader empathy and organizational support; and (5) benefits of solving employee negative emotions. Findings: Despite the pervasiveness of negative emotions and experiences in organizations, they can lead to positive outcomes if handled appropriately. Research Implications: The chapters focus on a wide variety of important but under-researched topics in emotions and affect; and contain many original solutions to dealing with such emotions that may ultimately prove beneficial to organizations. Practical Implications: Organizations that are good at helping their employees cope with negative emotions have a competitive advantage in improving their employees’ job performance and organizational commitment. Social Implications: The negative emotions examined in the volume chapters have an impact on employee well-being. Thus, coping with these emotions is crucial to society. Originality/ value: The chapters in this volume provide a variety of original solutions to what some might see as an “epidemic”’ of negativity in organizations
Person-environment fit: Project leader-stakeholder relationships in a complex project environment
No full textIn this paper, we develop a conceptual model to explore the perceived complementary congruence between complex project leaders and the demands of the complex project environment to understand how leaders’ affective and behavioural performance at work might be impacted by this fit. We propose that complex project leaders high in emotional intelligence and cognitive flexibility should report a higher level of fit between themselves and the complex project environment. This abilities-demands measure of fit should then relate to affective and behavioural performance outcomes, such that leaders who perceive a higher level of fit should establish and maintain more effective, higher quality project stakeholder relationships than leaders who perceive a lower level of fit
Workplace emotion : fear and anger
No full textThis original screen drama functioned as the stimulus in an audience response experiment, undertaken as part of research into workplace emotion. Commissioned and scripted by researchers at the University of Queensland and Griffith University, the film portrays the same narrative (a workplace conflict) twice, but played differently each time. The first version is intended to evince in viewers a fear response, and the second, an anger response. In preparing and rehearsing their performance choices, the actors utilised established taxonomies of fear and anger, in order to produce the optimum stimulus for conducting the experiment
Complexity theory and affect structure: a dynamic approach to modeling emotional changes in organizations
No full textTo reconcile theoretical discrepancies between discrete emotion, dimen sional emotion (positive vs. negative affect), and the circumplex model, we propose the bifurcation model of affect structure (BMAS). Based on complexity theory, this model explores how emotion as an adaptive complex system reacts to affective events through negative and positive feedback loops, resulting in self-organizing oscillation and transforma tions between three states: equilibrium emotion, discrete positive and negative emotion in the near-equilibrium state, and chaotic emotion. We argue that the BMAS is superior to the extant models in revealing the dynamic connections between emotions and the intensity of affective events in organizational settings
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