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31 - From Self-Consciousness to Success

When and Why Self-Conscious Emotions Promote Positive Employee Outcomes

from Part V - Discrete Emotions at Work

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 June 2020

By
Rebecca L. Schaumberg  and
Jessica L. Tracy
Edited by
Liu-Qin Yang ,
Russell Cropanzano ,
Catherine S. Daus  and
Vicente Martínez-Tur
Liu-Qin Yang
Affiliation:
Portland State University
Russell Cropanzano
Affiliation:
University of Colorado
Catherine S. Daus
Affiliation:
Southern Illinois University Edwardsville
Vicente Martínez-Tur
Affiliation:
Universitat de València, Spain
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Summary

Self-conscious emotions of guilt, shame, and pride are some of the most private emotions people experience, and yet they are central emotions for governing collective and organizational life. A missed deadline, a forgotten email, or a poor performance review can evoke feelings of guilt or shame. Victory over a competitor, a successful product launch, or a compliment from a colleague can evoke feelings of pride. Organizational scholars have theorized about how self-conscious emotions affect a range of employee outcomes such as responses to layoffs (Brockner, Davy, & Carter, 1985), positive inequity (Adams, 1965; Walster, Walster, & Berscheid, 1978), and institutional reproduction (Douglas Creed, Hudson, Bokhuysen, & Smith-Crowe, 2004), but empirical evidence in support of these claims has been sparse, particularly in comparison to research on other emotional experiences such as positive and negative affectivity.

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The Cambridge Handbook of Workplace Affect , pp. 414 - 425
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2020

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