Purpose – The paper aims to study how shame, guilt and fear experienced by failing employees determine their explanation of the failure. Design/methodology/approach – Employees participated in two studies, one assessing actual personal examples of failures and another used imaginary...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to highlight the interplay among promotion decision, emotions, and perceptions of organizational justice. Design/methodology/approach – The paper adopts Weiner's attribution theory of motivation and emotion, using it as a tool in the analysis. By using...

Purpose The purpose of this study was to explore the relation between diversity in work group members’ employment arrangements and the actual performance of the work groups. Design/methodology/approach A field study was conducted on 31 work groups in a public plant belonging to the industrial...

Les émotions sont omniprésentes au travail. Au cours des dernières années, on s'est lentement éloigné de l'idée que le milieu de travail idéal n'admet pas l'existence des émotions pour s'apercevoir qu'elles font non seulement partie intégrante du travail, mais qu'elles y jouent aussi...