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Weiss and Cropanzano's Affective Events Theory.
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Orientation: Emotions must be investigated within the natural contexts in which they occur. It therefore becomes crucial to study episodes in the workplace.
Research purpose: The objective of this study was to determine the positive and negative emotion episodes and frequencies of working Afrikaans-speaking adults.
Motivation for the study: To dat...
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... and Den Hartog (2009) mention an example of an event or emotion episode namely, performance feedback. These events trigger positive or negative emotions that influence behaviour and motivation at work (see Figure 1). Michel and Clark (2009) investigated the AET and conclude that, according to the AET, affect can be classified into positive affect (PA) and negative affect (NA). ...
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... Vlie Holmdal and Einarsen (2011) conclude that this theory indicates what happens between work events and subsequent employee attitudes and behaviour by focusing on the role of personality and emotion. The theory provides a comprehensive account of the antecedents and consequences of the structure of emotion episodes at work (see Figure 1). The AET argues that employees' attitudes towards the environment follow a cognitive as well as an affective route. ...
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... This is especially so when the employer is unsympathetic to the student's academic career. Feelings of frustration with non-performing colleagues, anger about irate customers and interaction with unsympathetic managers are all contributing factors that cause emotion in the workplace (Jonker & Van der Merwe, 2013). These unhealthy emotions may, in turn, lead to higher levels of stress or anxiety, reduced performance and low feelings of self-esteem or efficacy. ...
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... They also summarize that emotional exhaustion plays a mediating role in the relationship between coworker incivility and three organizational outcomes. Another research by Jonker and Merwe (2013) show that emotional exhaustion mediates the relationship between workplace incivility and turnover intention. ...
Incivility is a silent disruption and a contemporary workplace crisis which commonly occurs in an organization. Experience of workplace incivility is defined as the frequency of experience of low intensity by employee in relation to deviant workplace behavior with ambiguous intention to the target of the violation of workplace norms with mutual consideration. Most studies on workplace incivility have shown that occurrence of workplace incivility has negative consequences for both individual employees and the whole organization. The mediator between workplace incivility and work consequences has to be explored and investigated to more understand their correlation. Using the affective event theory will predict significantly emotional exhaustion mediate the relationship between experienced of workplace incivility to turnover intention and psychological well-being. Research about experience of workplace incivility and its consequences need to be explored and adapted with millennial employees who are the back bone of organization in the future.
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Power engineering students need to register for and successfully complete a capstone module within the Baccalaureus Technologiae qualification in Electrical Engineering in South Africa. These students need to submit six different assignments over a period of 10 months, comprising a proposal, a progress report, a poster, a power point presentation, a conference paper and a final report. However, it has been observed that the final grades of working students have fluctuated dramatically over the past three years, leading to the following research question “What may be contributing to these fluctuations?” The purpose of this paper is to discuss the fluctuations and provide possible reasons for them based on literature applicable to this field. An exploratory case study is used to provide quantitative data of the student final grades from 2014 – 2016. Results show that the pass rate varied from 71% to 77% to 56%. Furthermore, some 18 students submitted their proposal in 2016, but never submitted the other five assignments. This concern may be related to load shedding by both students and academics, rather than load shifting. A key recommendation of this research is to share its findings with top management of student employers and the university, thereby hoping to create awareness of the importance of lightening the workloads of employed students andacademics during important submission periods of capstone modules.
... Um outro fator complicador nas definições de felicidade e de bem-estar, se refere aos conceitos de sentimentos e de emoções. Isto porque enquanto alguns pesquisadores usam o conceito de emoção para tratar os fenômenos (Contreras & Esguerra, 2006;Jonker & Merwe, 2013), outros se reportam a sentimentos (Aristóteles, 1991;Malvezzi, 2015;Silva & Tolfo, 2012). Também podem ser encontrados na literatura autores que tratam emoção e sentimento como fenômenos de mesma ordem (Contreras & Esguerra, 2006). ...
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The present article aimed to carry out reflections with the purpose of understanding similarities and differences between the concepts of life quality at work, well-being and happiness at work. National and international articles and books have been analyzed. The analysis of the material has allowed to point out that, despite the lack of theoretical consensus and the use of those as synonyms, specially between "life quality and well-being" and "well-being and happiness", it has been pointed out that these are different concepts, although complementary. While life quality regards physical health and objective issues, the concepts of well-being and happiness promotion make up for the lack related to workers' emotions and feelings. The study allows clarification on the presented constructs, giving them greater visibility and favoring their adequate use in the literature related to the worker´s health.
... But a "ba" environment alone is not enough to stimulate the sharing of knowledge among individuals. Indeed, those seeking to stimulate sharing must consider that individuals bring their emotions to work (Jonker and Merwe 2013). ...
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A Gestão do Conhecimento é uma área que propõe meios para uma organização capturar, estruturar e disseminar o conhecimento. Esse conhecimento pode ser desenvolvido no ambiente organizacional, partindo do indivíduo e sendo compartilhado em grupos. Para que o compartilhamento aconteça é necessária a criação de um ambiente propício para tal. Entretanto, esse mesmo ambiente não é suficiente para estimular tal compartilhamento uma vez que outras variáveis podem influenciar na interação dos indivíduos sendo, uma delas, as emoções positivas. Nesse sentido, o objetivo desta pesquisa é apresentar uma revisão sistemática da literatura que identifica os estudos publicados em periódicos nacionais e internacionais e que tratam do compartilhamento do conhecimento e das emoções positivas. A revisão sistemática foi executada seguindo seis etapas. Apesar dos resultados aqui alcançados apresentarem a tendência crescente no número de publicações sobre o tema investigado entre 2011 e 2020, ainda há poucos trabalhos acerca deste tema, merecendo a atenção dos pesquisadores devido à influência das emoções na forma em como as pessoas compartilham seus conhecimentos.
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