The rapidly growing recognition of the importance of emotion in understanding all aspects of organizational life is facilitating the development of focused areas of scholarship. This volume includes articles, which represent a selection of the papers presented at the sixth International...

Affective events theory : a strategic perspective / Claire E. Ashton-James, Neal M. Ashkanasy -- Feelings about ethical decisions : the emotions of moral residue / Wilfred J. Zerbe -- When executives get angry : the importance of anger and its triggers to ethical awareness and sensitivity / Amy...

The chapters in this volume are drawn from the best contributions to the 2006 International Conference on Emotion and Organizational Life held in Atlanta, in conjunction with the Academy of Management's Annual Meetings. (This bi-annual conference has come to be known as the Emonet conference,...

Purpose: During turbulent social and economic times, perceptions of job insecurity can be expected to increase. In this chapter, we outline a theoretical model that links perceptions of job insecurity to lower affective commitment and high work-related stress, resulting in employees' engaging in...