Feeling Mixed, Ambivalent, and in Flux: The Social Functions of Emotional Complexity for Leaders

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Integrating emotions and affect in theories of management (2017, background): “Drawing on functional theory of emotion, Rothman and Melwani (2017) argue that emotional complexity should facilitate the level of intra-personal cognitive flexibility that allows a balanced consideration of multiple divergent perspectives, thus enhancing creative adaptation during a change process.”
Leader-Member Exchange (LMX) Ambivalence and Task Performance: The Cross-Domain Buffering Role of Social Support (2019, background): “On the other hand, some research suggests that ambivalent relationships may also have functional workplace outcomes (e.g., Rothman & Melwani, 2017).”
Microfoundations of Organizational Paradox: The Problem Is How We Think about the Problem (2017, background): “In this sense, a paradox mindset increases cognitive flexibility, or “the ease with which individuals are able to broaden the scope of their attentional span to attend to divergent perspectives but also to engage in a balanced consideration of those perspectives” (Rothman & Melwani, 2016: 13).”
The Hedonic Character of Nostalgia: An Integrative Data Analysis (2020, background): “By extrapolation, nostalgia may also aid in decision making by reducing susceptibility to biases such as anchoring, escalation of commitment (Rothman & Melwani, 2017), or risk aversion (Zou et al., 2019).”