Why Does Affect Matter in Organizations

By Sigal G. Barsade, Donald E. Gibson. 2007

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Subfields: Clinical Psychology, Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management, Social Psychology

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Implicit affect in organizations (2009, background): “Over the last 15–20 years, we have gained tremendous insights into many areas and outcomes of organizational behavior by incorporating knowledge of explicit affective processes (Barsade et al., 2003; Barsade & Gibson, 2007; Elfenbein, 2007).”
When Victims Help Their Abusive Supervisors: The Role of LMX, Self-Blame, and Guilt (2020, methodology): “Moreover, we chose a bi-daily design to time-separate some of our study variables and measure how the commonly short-lived changes in emotions (Barsade & Gibson, 2007) can affect changes in emotions and behavior within the same day.”
It’s About Time: New Perspectives and Insights on Time Management (2017, background): “Individual differences in personality, values, and beliefs are known to influence various organizational outcomes such as job satisfaction and performance (Barsade & Gibson, 2007; Sackett, Lievens, Van Iddekinge, & Kuncel, 2017).”
Understanding the positive and negative effects of emotional expressions in organizations: EASI does it (2014, background): “…authors have drawn attention to the fact that emotions may have ‘asymmetrical’ effects, so that negative emotions yield advantageous outcomes and positive emotions disadvantageous outcomes (e.g. Barsade and Gibson, 2007; Lindebaum and Fielden, 2011; Lindebaum et al., 2013; Parrott, in press).”
Leader Ethical Decision-Making in Organizations: Strategies for Sensemaking (2012, background): “Emotions are an inherent component of the leadership process (Ashforth and Humphrey 1995; Ashkanasy and Tse 2000; Barsade and Gibson 2007; Fineman 1997), including leader decision-making (George 2000; Sayegh et al.”
Anger in Organizations: Review and Integration (2010, background): “…demonstrated the effect of individual affective disposition (primarily measured as positive affectivity [PA] and negative affectivity [NA]) on key organizational variables, such as job satisfaction, performance, and decision making (see summary in Barsade & Gibson, 2007; Weiss & Cropanzano, 1999).”
Thinking critically about affect in organization studies: Why it matters (2017, neutral): “…reason, the distinction between the two is important, and while we acknowledge the relevance of on-going work on emotions for organization studies (Barsade and Gibson, 2007; Elfenbein, 2008; Fineman, 2003, 2004, 2010; Loseke, 2009; Stearns and Stearns, 1985; Wright and Nyberg, 2012), for the…”
A Meta-Analytic Investigation of the Relationship Between State Affect, Discrete Emotions, and Job Performance (2012, background): “…unique motivational and behavioral properties of different types of affect (i.e., moods, emotions, and dispositions) in narrative reviews (e.g., Barsade & Gibson, 2007; Brief & Weiss, 2002; Weiss & Cropanzano, 1996), all previous meta-analyses have either focused exclusively on dispositional…”
Learning from Errors: Cognition, Emotions and Safety Culture in the Italian Air Force (2013, background): “Emotions refer to fairly brief but intense experiences elicited by a particular target or cause, which often include physiological reactions and action sequences (Barsade & Gibson, 2007; Frijda, 1986; Lazarus, 1991).”
Heart Rate Variability (HRV) Analysis: A Methodology for Organizational Neuroscience (2019, background): “For instance, a better understanding of organizational actors’ affective states is an important aspect for companies (Barsade & Gibson, 2007), and emotion regulation is vital to employee well-being and job performance (Côté & Morgan, 2002; Goldberg & Grandey, 2007).”
The weekend matters: Relationships between stress recovery and affective experiences (2010, background): “Employees are not isolated ‘‘emotional islands’’ meaning that their affective experiences and expressions impact others’’ (Barsade & Gibson, 2007).”