Making the Break Count: An Episodic Examination of Recovery Activities, Emotional Experiences, and Positive Affective Displays

By John P Trougakos, D. Beal, Stephen G. Green, H. Weiss. 2008

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Subfields: Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Sociology and Political Science

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How Can Stressed Employees Deliver Better Customer Service? The Underlying Self-Regulation Depletion Mechanism (2012, result): “To compensate for their feelings of depletion, highly stressed employees might seek self-rewarding experiences through CDERP, a claim consistent with Trougakos et al.’s (2008) suggestion that engaging in preferred behaviors helps replenish self-regulation resources.”
The Wheel Model of humor: Humor events and affect in organizations (2012, background): “For example, perhaps authentic displays of emotion accompanying the use of humor during employee breaks can help individuals ‘recharge’ and return with more energy to emit authentic displays of positive emotions (Trougakos et al., 2008).”
The Role of Job Demands and Emotional Exhaustion in the Relationship Between Customer and Employee Incivility (2010, background): “Trougakos et al. (2008) reported that workday break activities have a positive effect on emotional labor and performance by helping employees recover from negative emotional experiences.”
Building a Sustainable Model of Human Energy in Organizations: Exploring the Critical Role of Resources (2012, background): “Organizational scholars have only begun to explore the role of energy in the creation, maintenance, and destruction of the many social structures of interest to the field.”
Recovery at Work: Understanding the Restorative Side of “Depleting” Client Interactions (2012, background): “As noted earlier, one form of self-control of particular relevance for compassionate care provision is the regulation of expressed emotions (Beal et al., 2006; Lown et al., 2011; Maslach, 1982; Trougakos et al., 2008; Zapf, Seifert, Schmutte, Mertini, & Holz, 2001).”
Staying vigorous until work is over: The role of trait vigour, day-specific work experiences and recovery (2008, background): “Moreover, particularly in times of high workload, restorative work breaks (Trougakos et al., 2008) should be scheduled and must not be skipped.”
The weekend matters: Relationships between stress recovery and affective experiences (2010, background): “The study by Trougakos et al. (2008) examined activities during work breaks within a workday and their relationships with affective states during the work break.”
Its the little things that matter: an examination of knowledge workers energy management (2011, neutral): “This conclusion takes a first step at connecting research on recovery from work demands and work breaks (Eden, 2001; Trougakos et al., 2008) on one hand with research on job design on the other hand.”
Work-related flow and energy at work and at home: A study on the role of daily recovery (2012, background): “Trougakos et al. (2008) found that engaging in chores (for example, running errands, practicing material, and preparing for upcoming meetings) during breaks was associated with negative emotions.”
Recovery from job stress: The stressor‐detachment model as an integrative framework (2015, background): “…engaging in work-related activities during lunch breaks is associated with impaired affect during work and higher levels of fatigue at the end of the workday, particularly when having little autonomy about how to spend the break (Trougakos et al., 2008; Trougakos, Hideg, Cheng, & Beal, in press).”