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Positive Emotions at Work
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Positive organizational scholarship has led to a growing interest in the critical role of positive emotions for the lives of both workers and organizations. We review and integrate the different perspectives on positive emotions (i.e., positive valence, positive emotion regulation strategies, and positive adaptive function) and the four main mechanisms (i.e., cognition, affect, behavior, and physiology) that lead to positive organizational outcomes. There is growing evidence that positive emotions influence variables vital for workplace success such as positive beliefs, creativity, work engagement, positive coping, health, teamwork and collaboration, customer satisfaction, leadership, and performance. We additionally review dynamic features of positive emotions (i.e., intraindividual variability, reactivity, inertia, cycles, feedback loops) and their relation to psychological and work outcomes. Finally, we discuss additional questions and future directions for consideration.
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- Authors
- Diener, E., Thapa, S., & Tay, L.
- Affiliations
- University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (US)
- Purdue University West Lafayette (US)
- Venue
- Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews
- Published
- 2020-01-21
- Volume
- 7
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 451-477
- ISSN
- 2327-0608 (ISSN-L)
- 2327-0616
- OpenAlex
- W2985728577
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- FWCI
- 4.94
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Annual Review of Organizational Psychology and Organizational Behavior (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotional Intelligence and Performance
- Keywords
- positive emotions, positive valence, emotion regulation, work engagement, creativity, positive coping, employee health, teamwork, customer satisfaction, leadership, employee performance, within-person variability, emotional reactivity, emotional inertia, feedback loops
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