Publications

1 Aug 2003 - 6 Aug 2003
Conference Presentation

Affect and Creativity at Work: A Daily Longitudinal Test.

By: Teresa M. Amabile, S. G. Barsade, J. S. Mueller and B. M. Staw

Keywords: Creativity; Emotions

April 2004 (Revised August 2004)
Exercise

Major Steckleson at the National Training Center (D): Role for LTC Hanson

By: Scott A. Snook, Robert Kaderavek and Jeremy Schneider

Role play exercise for LTC Hanson. Teaching Purpose: To role-play to further understanding of the protagonist's emotions. View Details

Keywords: Emotions

2020
Article

Worry at Work: How Organizational Culture Promotes Anxiety

By: Jeremy A. Yip, Emma E. Levine, Alison Wood Brooks and Maurice E. Schweitzer

Organizational culture profoundly influences how employees think and behave. Established research suggests that the content, intensity, consensus, and fit of cultural norms act as a social control system for attitudes and behavior. We adopt the norms model of... View Details

Keywords: Anxiety; Norms; Stress; Culture; Tightness-looseness; Curvilinear; Organizational Culture; Emotions; Performance

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January 1982 (Revised July 2007)
Case

Dan Stewart (A)

A subordinate who Dan Stewart has recently placed on warning for unsatisfactory performance is suddenly appointed Dan's boss. Involves such issues as the management of disappointment, understanding organizational irrationality, lateral transfer within the same company,... View Details

Keywords: Rank and Position; Emotions

Educators

01 Mar 2003
News

Service with a Smile

In an effort to understand the role that suppressing or exaggerating emotions has on employees, HBS assistant professor Laura Morgan Roberts and a colleague from the University of Toronto, Stéphane Côté, set about to measure the... View Details

Keywords: Laura Morgan Roberts; Stephane Cote; Publishing Industries (except Internet); Information

2003
Working Paper

Affect and Creativity at Work: A Daily Longitudinal Test

By: Teresa M. Amabile, Sigal G. Barsade, Jennifer S. Mueller and Barry M. Staw

Keywords: Emotions

07 Jan 2015
Research & Ideas

The Quest for Better Layoffs

wouldn't face the domino effect that many people face when they don't have savings accounts or other resources that my classmates and I had." Emotional Costs And Worst Practices And so the students teamed up with the professor on a... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Manufacturing

September 16, 2022
Article

Bored at Work? Learn to Manage It by Putting It to Work

By: Katherine Connolly Baden, Boris Groysberg and Heather Poco

Do you often feel bored at work or in life? Do you want to feel less bored? If so, what can you do to make that happen? Boredom has a bad rap, but is it really so bad? View Details

Keywords: Time Management; Emotions; Motivation and Incentives; Jobs and Positions

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2022
Article

When Regular Meets Remarkable: Awe as a Link between Routine Work and Meaningful Self-Narratives

By: Elizabeth Sheprow and Spencer Harrison

Daily narratives of work can include a mix of ordinary actions and awe-inspiring moments that reveal a vaster, more meaningful reality. When awe is experienced in the context of work, it can prompt self-referential sensemaking about what these experiences mean for the... View Details

Keywords: Narratives; Meaning; Qualitative Method; Emotions; Identity; Employment

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2020
Article

Humanizing Management and Innovation

By: Hirotaka Takeuchi

This article is an excerpt from The Wise Company book that Ikujiro Nonaka and I published in October 2019 from Oxford University Press. It is a sequel to The Knowledge-Creating Company book we published 25 years ago. As our thinking evolved from information to... View Details

Keywords: Knowledge Creation; Knowledge Practice; Phronesis; Practical Wisdom; Ba; Continuous Innovation; Fusion Of Analog And Digital; Management As A Way Of Life; Management Style; Emotions; Innovation and Management

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1976
Chapter

The Romance of Community: Intentional Communities as Intensive Group Experience

By: R. M. Kanter

Keywords: Civil Society or Community; Groups and Teams; Emotions

13 Feb 2013
Research & Ideas

5 Weight Loss Tips From Behavioral Economists

emotional feeling of guilt. The researchers asked 67 college undergraduates to complete a series of tasks that involved recalling past guilt-inducing behavior, confronting an opportunity to cheat, and choosing whether to eat a piece of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

December 2016
Article

The Effects of Endowment Size and Strategy Method on Third Party Punishment

By: Jillian J. Jordan, Katherine McAuliffe and David G. Rand

Numerous experiments have shown that people often engage in third-party punishment (3PP) of selfish behavior. This evidence has been used to argue that people respond to selfishness with anger, and get utility from punishing those who mistreat others. Elements of the... View Details

Keywords: Third-party Punishment; Norm-enforcement; Strategy Method; Economic Games; Cooperation; Emotions; Fairness