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Organizational behavior ‘rediscovers’ the role of emotional well‐being

Organizational behavior ‘rediscovers’ the role of emotional well‐being THOMAS A. WRIGHT1* AND ELIZABETH M. DOHERTY2 1Managerial 2 Sciences Department, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0206, U.S.A. Department of Management & Information Systems, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131-1395, U.S.A. We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today. Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir (1855). While a€ect or emotional well-being plays a signi®cant role in various aspects of our work lives, recent organizational research investigating this topic area has been rather sparse.1 Hunt (1997) conducted a literature review of work published in management journals from 1985 through 1996 and found that only a small number of the articles reviewed (slightly over 1 per cent) focused on a€ective-related issues. In this Incubator article, we emphasize the need to develop an expanded role of emotional well-being in organizational research and suggest new directions for future research. Research Gap Hunt's ®nding of few recently published articles on a€ect-related topics is surprising given that early work in organizational psychology gave a prominent role to job-related issues involving emotional well-being. As organizational behavior evolved as a ®eld, this initial interest in emotion developed into the current controversy concerning the relative contributions of a€ective and cognitive in¯uences to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Journal of Organizational Behavior Wiley

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Copyright © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.
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0894-3796
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THOMAS A. WRIGHT1* AND ELIZABETH M. DOHERTY2 1Managerial 2 Sciences Department, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada 89557-0206, U.S.A. Department of Management & Information Systems, St. Joseph's University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19131-1395, U.S.A. We know nothing of tomorrow; our business is to be good and happy today. Sydney Smith, Lady Holland's Memoir (1855). While a€ect or emotional well-being plays a signi®cant role in various aspects of our work lives, recent organizational research investigating this topic area has been rather sparse.1 Hunt (1997) conducted a literature review of work published in management journals from 1985 through 1996 and found that only a small number of the articles reviewed (slightly over 1 per cent) focused on a€ective-related issues. In this Incubator article, we emphasize the need to develop an expanded role of emotional well-being in organizational research and suggest new directions for future research. Research Gap Hunt's ®nding of few recently published articles on a€ect-related topics is surprising given that early work in organizational psychology gave a prominent role to job-related issues involving emotional well-being. As organizational behavior evolved as a ®eld, this initial interest in emotion developed into the current controversy concerning the relative contributions of a€ective and cognitive in¯uences to

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Journal of Organizational Behavior – Wiley

Published: Sep 1, 1998

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