AFFECT AND MANAGERIAL PERFORMANCE - A TEST OF THE SADDER-BUT-WISER VS HAPPIER-AND-SMARTER HYPOTHESES

• 成果类型: Article
• 署名作者: STAW, BM; BARSADE, SG
• 刊物名称: ADMINISTRATIVE SCIENCE QUARTERLY
• ISSN/ISSBN: 0001-8392
• DOI: 10.2307/2393415
• 发表日期: 1993
• 页码: 304-331
• 关键词: positive affect; AFFECTIVE STATES; DISPOSITIONAL APPROACH; feeling good; DEPRESSION; illusion; mood; satisfaction; INFORMATION; personality

摘要

This study provides a comparative test of two psychological theories concerning the relationship between affect and performance. Managerial simulations are used to test whether people who are positive in disposition perform better or worse on both decisional and interpersonal tasks. Results are consistent in supporting the happier-and-smarter as opposed to the sadder-but-wiser hypothesis, since they show positive relationships between dispositional affect and performance. The results are discussed in terms of their relevance to both the older literature on links between satisfaction and performance and the more recent controversy over the dispositional approach to job attitudes.