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Mood And Emotions While Working - Missing Pieces Of Job Satisfaction, Cynthia D. Fisher
Mood And Emotions While Working - Missing Pieces Of Job Satisfaction, Cynthia D. Fisher
Cynthia D. Fisher
Job satisfaction is often described as an affective response to one's job, but usually measured largely as a cognitive evaluation ofjob features. This paper explores several hypothesized relationships between real time affect while working (50 observations ofmood and emotions over two weeks) and measures ofjob satisfaction. As expected, affect measures predict satisfaction but are not identical to satisfaction. Affect is more strongly related to a faces measure ofsatisfaction than to more verbal measures of satisfaction. Positive and negative emotions both make unique contributions to satisfaction, and contribute to the prediction of overall satisfaction above and beyond facet satisfactions. Frequency ofnet …
Emotions At Work: What Do People Feel And How Should We Measure It?, Cynthia D. Fisher
Emotions At Work: What Do People Feel And How Should We Measure It?, Cynthia D. Fisher
Cynthia D. Fisher
Affect at work is of increasing interest to organisational researchers. Prior research on felt affect at work has focused almost exclusively mood rather than emotion. As yet we have little knowledge about which emotions are felt or how frequently they are felt in the workplace, or of what their causes or consequences might be. There has not even been an instrument available for measuring emotion at work. This paper reports on a preliminary study designed as a lead-in to further research on emotion at work. One hundred sixteen people reported on the frequency with which they had experienced 135 different …