Purpose – The paper aims to examine, first, how performance feedback influences positive and negative affect within individuals across negative and positive feedback range, and secondly, whether self‐esteem moderates individuals' affective reactions to feedback. Design/methodology/approach...

Conceptualizing episodes of interpersonal conflict at work as affective events, this research examined the effect of such conflict episodes on employees' affective experiences on the job. We also examined the role of agreeableness and social support in moderating employees' affective reactions...