Emotions, Ethics and Decision-Making

Wilfred J. Zerbe, Charmine E. J. Härtel, Neal M. Ashkanasy

• Publisher: Emerald Group Publishing Limited
• Year: 2008
• ISBN:
  9781846639418
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Industrial & Organizational Psychology
• Index: Psychology

The rapidly growing recognition of the importance of emotion in understanding all aspects of organizational life is facilitating the development of focused areas of scholarship. The articles in this volume represent a selection of the best papers presented at the sixth International Conference on Emotions and Organizational Life (held in Atlanta, in July 2006), complemented with invited chapters by leading scholars in the field. The theme of this volume, Emotions, Ethics and Decision-making, concerns the role of emotions in decision-making in general, and also more specifically the special place of emotions in decisions that have an ethical character. It begins by looking at the influence of emotions on strategic decisions, among entrepreneurs, in the case of workplace proenvironmental behaviors, as well as how emotional intelligence contributes to problem solving. Emotions are particularly present in ethical decisions, largely because of the close connection between personal identity, for which values are central, and feelings about the self. Specific chapters look at emotions experienced as a result of ethical dilemmas, the role of anger and justice perceptions, the role of attributions and emotional intelligence in ethics perceptions, and at emotions in three specific contexts: emotional labor, whistle-blowing and sexual harassment. Finally the volume comes full circle in an examination of how top executives engage in change that is truly congruent with the ethical values of internal and external constituents.

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Research on Emotion in Organizations
• Copyright page
• Contents
• About the editors
• List of contributors
• Overview: emotions, ethics, and decision-making
• Chapter 1. Affective events theory: a strategic perspective
• Chpater 2. A matter of feelingquest The role of intuition in entrepreneurial decision-making and behavior
• Chapter 3. The effect of emotional intelligence and cognitive intelligence on the solutions generated to ill-structured problems
• Chapter 4. The role of emotions in driving workplace pro-environmental behaviors
• Chapter 5. Feelings about ethical decisions: the emotions of moral residue
• Chapter 6. When executives get angry: the importance of anger and its triggers to ethical awareness and sensitivity
• Chapter 7. Role of affect and interactional justice in moral leadership
• Chapter 8. On not blowing the whistle: quiescent silence as an emotion episode
• Chapter 9. Leadership negligence and malpractice: emotional toxicity at SkyWaves Aerospace international
• Chapter 10. The role of emotional intelligence in integrity and ethics perceptions
• Chapter 11. Societal norms and contextual emotional labor
• Chapter 12. A re-examination of the attribution-emotion-behavior framework in the context of unethical behavior
• Chapter 13. The effects of empathy on judgments of sexual harassment complaints
• Chapter 14. Practical wisdom and emotional capability as antecedents of organizational accountability in revolutionary change processes
• About the Authors