When it can be good to feel bad and bad to feel good: Exploring asymmetries in workplace emotional outcomes

Human Relations

Volumn 67, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 1037-1050

  Lindebaum, Dirk ^a   Jordan, Peter J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

affect; context; discrete emotions; problematization; work outcomes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906738336     PISSN: 00187267     EISSN: 1741282X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0018726714535824     Document Type: Article

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