Affect and Mood in Organizations
Researchers have recently started to focus renewed interest on the affective component of
attitudes. Recall from our earlier discussion that the affective component of an attitude
reflects our feelings and emotions. Although managers once believed that emotion and
feelings varied among people from day to day, research now suggests that, although some
short-term fluctuation does indeed occur, there are also underlying stable predispositions
toward fairly constant and predictable moods and emotional states.
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Some people, for example, tend to have a higher degree of
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