Emotions and Leadership

Neal M. Ashkanasy is a Professor of Management at the University of Queensland Business School in Australia. His research on leadership, emotions, organizational culture and ethics has been published in international journals such as the Academy of Management Review, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Applied Psychology. Wilfred J. Zerbe is Vancouver Campus Executive at Fairleigh Dickinson University, Canada. His research on emotions in organizations, organizational research methods, business ethics and leadership has appeared in books and journals including the Academy of Management Review and Journal of Business Research. Charmine E. J. Härtel is Professor and Chair of Inclusive Organizational Leadership and Employment at the University of Queensland Business School in Australia. Her work integrates Strengths-Oriented HRM, Positive Organizational Scholarship, and Occupational Health Psychology and appears in over 200 leading publications.

Drawn from the 2018 International Conference on Emotion and Organizational Life, held in Chicago, Illinois, the 11 chapters in this volume explore different aspects of emotions and organizational leadership. Business and psychology researchers from the Middle East, Australia, Europe, Asia, and North America provide studies that focus on specific levels of analysis: the role of emotions in leadership at the individual level, including within-person temporal effects, between-person effects, and interpersonal effects in settings like a police department and a large transportation company, and in terms of emotional intelligence, work engagement, and emotional labor, servant leadership, and job satisfaction; the impact leaders have on teams, with discussion of team identification, team creativity, and leader empathy; and leadership and emotions at the organization-wide level, including investors in entrepreneurial ventures, different cultures, and organizational leaders.

• Part I: Leaders and Members 1.Power and Emotion Recognition: The Moderating Role of Work Stress;  Anna Faber and Frank Walter 2.A Diary Investigation of Daily Emotions, Emotional Display and Leaders’ Authenticity in a Cohort of City Traffic Police; Muhammad Ali Asadullah, Usman Abdullah and Ahmad Siddiquei 3.A Multilevel Study of Leaders’ Emotional Labor on Servant Leadership and Job Satisfaction; Yan Li, Khalid Mehmood, Xiaoyuan Zhang and Corene M. Crossin 4.Emotional Intelligence as a Moderator of Emotional Responses to Leadership; Marie T. Dasborough 5.Entrained Engagement? Investigating if Work Engagement Follows a Predictable Pattern Across the Work Week and the Role of Personality in Shaping its Pattern; Denisa Luta, Deborah M. Powell and Jeffrey R. SpencePart II: Leaders and Teams 6.Identifying with the In-group Increases Aggressive Tendencies against the Out-group: The Mediating Role of Schadenfreude;  Raja Intan Arifah binti Raja Reza Shah and Eugene Y. J. Tee 7. Is Support Always Good? Exploring whether Supervisory Support Enhances or Attenuates the Beneficial Effect of Positive Group Affective Tone on Team and Individual Creativity; Nai-Wen Chi 8.The Importance of Empathy as a Distal Leadership Attribute in the Emergence of Leaders in Small Groups; Ronald B. Humphrey, Janet B. Kellett, Randy G. Sleeth, Chao Miao and Shanshan Qian Part III: Leaders, Organizations and Culture 9.The role of angel investors’ emotions in socially situated investment opportunity evaluations; Kirsi Snellman and Gabriella Cacciotti 10.Self-Uncertainty and Emotional Well-being Across Cultures: The Mediating Roles of Social Comparison; Hamidreza Harati, Neal M. Ashkanasy and Mahsa Amirzadeh 11.Developmental factors influencing effective leaders: A life story view of executive leadership development; Jennifer A. Nash