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Unleashing Angst: Negative Mood, Learning Goal Orientation, Psychological Empowerment And Creative Behaviour, March To, Cynthia Fisher, Neal Ashkanasy
Unleashing Angst: Negative Mood, Learning Goal Orientation, Psychological Empowerment And Creative Behaviour, March To, Cynthia Fisher, Neal Ashkanasy
Cynthia D. Fisher
Emotion researchers have found that negative mood may either enhance or inhibit employee creativity. Little is known about this conundrum, however, and in particular when and why each effect occurs. To address this concern, we formulate and test hypotheses about likely moderators of the relationship between negative mood and creative process engagement. Results from an experience sampling study with 556 real-time reports from 68 employees support our hypothesis that negative mood is most strongly and positively related to concurrent creative process engagement among employees who (a) have high trait learning goal orientation and (b) perceive that they are empowered. Our …
Embracing The "Two-Body Problem": The Case Of Partnered Academics, Cynthia Fisher
Embracing The "Two-Body Problem": The Case Of Partnered Academics, Cynthia Fisher
Cynthia D. Fisher
Extract: The focal article has given examples of children, other relatives, and friends as potential beneficiaries of preferential treatment and has discussed the counterbalancing likelihood of organizational gain from(properly) employing individuals who already share social connections. Surprisingly, there is minimal mention of spouses or domestic partners. From the 1970s through the 1990s, a number of articles were published on the legal and practical issues of applying antinepotism policies to spouses, but since 2000, the literature has been almost entirely silent. This is surprising given that, in 2013, the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that 47.4% of U.S. families involve husbands …
Boredom At Work: A Neglected Concept, Cynthia D. Fisher
Boredom At Work: A Neglected Concept, Cynthia D. Fisher
Cynthia D. Fisher
Nearly everyone experiences episodes of boredom at work from time to time, regardless of the nature of their job. Previous research on vigilance and industrial monotony is unable to explain boredom on any but the simplest of tasks. A broader view of the causes of boredom, including attributes of the task, environment, person, and person-environment fit, is proposed. Likely consequences of boredom are considered, and research needs and implications are discussed.
Task Appraisals, Emotions, And Performance Goal Orientation, Cynthia Fisher, Amirali Minibashian, Nadin Beckmann, Robert E. Wood
Task Appraisals, Emotions, And Performance Goal Orientation, Cynthia Fisher, Amirali Minibashian, Nadin Beckmann, Robert E. Wood
Cynthia D. Fisher
We predict real-time fluctuations in employees' positive and negative emotions from concurrent appraisals of the immediate task situation and individual differences in performance goal orientation. Task confidence, task importance, positive emotions, and negative emotions were assessed 5 times per day for 3 weeks in an experience sampling study of 135 managers. At the within-person level, appraisals of task confidence, task importance, and their interaction predicted momentary positive and negative emotions as hypothesized. Dispositional performance goal orientation was expected to moderate emotional reactivity to appraisals of task confidence and task importance. The hypothesized relationships were significant in the case of appraisals …
When Does Negative Mood Boost Creativity: A Trait Activation Perspective, March L. To, Cynthia Fisher
When Does Negative Mood Boost Creativity: A Trait Activation Perspective, March L. To, Cynthia Fisher
Cynthia D. Fisher
Using a within-person approach, we investigated the boundary conditions under which activating negative mood may promote or inhibit concurrent creative process engagement (CPE). Drawing on trait activation theory, we propose that dispositional goal orientation (learning goal orientation and avoidance goal orientation) will be expressed in response to trait-relevant work contexts (job control and psychological punishment respectively), thereby moderating the effects of activating negative mood on CPE. As expected, activating negative mood was positively associated with CPE when learning goal orientation and job control were both high. Activating negative mood was negatively related to CPE when learning goal orientation was high …
Micro Job Design: Affective Reactions To Real-Time Task Characteristics, Cynthia D. Fisher, March L. To
Micro Job Design: Affective Reactions To Real-Time Task Characteristics, Cynthia D. Fisher, March L. To
Cynthia D. Fisher
Most job design research assesses the effects of typical job characteristics on long term person level outcomes. We suggest that it is also worth studying short term affective reactions to momentary variations in task characteristics over the working day; what we will call “micro job design.” While there may be across-the board positive (or negative) reactions to some momentary task characteristics, we also hypothesise that there will be individual differences in reactions to task characteristics. In two experience sampling studies we demonstrate that, 1. High but not low growth need strength employees respond to increases in task demand with increasing …
Boredom At Work: A Neglected Concept, Cynthia D. Fisher
Boredom At Work: A Neglected Concept, Cynthia D. Fisher
Cynthia D. Fisher
Nearly everyone experiences episodes of boredom at work from time to time, regardless of the nature of their job. Previous research on vigilance and industrial monotony is unable to explain boredom on any but the simplest of tasks. A broader view of the causes of boredom, including attributes of the task, environment, person, and person-environment fit, is proposed. Likely consequences of boredom are considered, and research needs and implications are discussed.
Why Don't They Learn?, Cynthia D. Fisher
Why Don't They Learn?, Cynthia D. Fisher
Cynthia D. Fisher
Extract: Highhouse (2008) suggests that managers’ ‘‘stubborn’’ preferences for suboptimal selection practices are based on two beliefs: (1) that selection decisions can be near 100% correct and (2) that the expertise and intuition needed to make perfect decisions are developed by experience. I will suggest mechanisms by which these beliefs persist in the face of what should be contradictory feedback.
What If We Took Within-Person Performance Variability Seriously?, Cynthia D. Fisher
What If We Took Within-Person Performance Variability Seriously?, Cynthia D. Fisher
Cynthia D. Fisher
Extract: Efforts to understand what seems to be an unacceptably weak relationship between actual performance and rated performance have focused exclusively on the rater side of the model, not on the performance side. For instance, the Murphy (2008) model shows error only for ratings. Therefore, efforts to remedy the situation have also focused exclusively on raters: adjust the relationships of poor-quality ratings to other variables for attenuation because of unreliability, improve the raters by training, clarify the rating task by providing a better format, or enhance rater motivation to be honest in recording what they really think. A strong implicit …