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To your heart's content: a model of affective diversity in top management teams

Barsade, Sigal G., Ward, Andrew J., Turner, Jean D. F., Sonnenfeld, Jeffrey A.·2000·Administrative Science Quarterly
DOI 10.2307/2667020
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In this study we develop a model of how diversity in positive affect (PA) among group members influences individual attitudes, group processes, and group performance. We test the model on a sample of 62 U.S. top management teams. Greater affective fit between a team member and his or her group is related to more positive attitudes about group relations and perceptions of greater influence within the group. Results also suggest there is a negative relationship between a team's diversity in trait positive affect and both the chief executive officers' use of participatory decision making and financial performance. Exploratory analyses reveal that affectively diverse, low mean trait PA groups experienced the greatest task and emotional conflict and the least cooperation. Analyses of diversity in trait negative affect produced no significant results. We discuss the implications of our study for the group emotion, team composition, group performance, and top management team literatures.

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  • Teams are especially fertile ground for the emergence of emotional convergence because their members often share intense, frequent experiences that foster a co-construction of affective perceptions.

    “Teams are especially fertile ground for the emergence of emotional convergence because their members often share intense, frequent experiences that foster a co-construction of affective perceptions (Barsade et al., 2000).”

    From The Groupfeel syndrome: a theory of a counterproductive group emotion (2026) · cites this paper as Barsade et al., 2000

  • The demographic approach posits that group emotion arises from the aggregation of individual emotional traits or dispositions brought into the group by its members.

    “The demographic approach posits that group emotion arises from the aggregation of individual emotional traits or dispositions brought into the group by its members (Barsade and Gibson, 1998; George, 1996; Barsade et al., 2000).”

    From The Groupfeel syndrome: a theory of a counterproductive group emotion (2026) · cites this paper as Barsade et al., 2000

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Authors
Barsade, S. G., Ward, A. J., Turner, J. D. F., & Sonnenfeld, J. A.
Affiliations
  • Yale University (US)
  • Emory University (US)
ORCID
Ward, Andrew J.
Venue
Administrative Science Quarterly
Publisher
JSTOR
Published
2000-12
Volume
45
Issue
4
Pages
802-836
ISSN
  • 0001-8392 (ISSN-L)
  • 1930-3815
DOI
10.2307/2667020
OpenAlex
W2030544719
Cited by
599
References
161
Citations by year
2026: 6 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 16 · 2023: 18 · 2022: 16 · 2021: 23 · 2020: 13 · 2019: 33 · 2018: 26 · 2017: 24 · 2016: 30 · 2015: 30 · 2014: 33 · 2013: 32 · 2012: 42
FWCI
18.50
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
journals.sagepub.com/page/policies/text-and-data-mining-license (tdm)
Locations
Administrative Science Quarterly (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Team Dynamics and Performance
  • Social Sciences › Business, Management and Accounting › Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management › Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Social Psychology › Emotional Intelligence and Performance
Keywords
top management teams, positive affect, negative affect, group performance, participatory decision-making, financial performance, task conflict, emotional conflict, cooperation, group relations, team composition, collective emotions

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