Affect and Emotion

A volume in Research in Management (Sponsored by the Southern Management Association)
Series Editors Linda L. Neider and Chester A. Schriesheim,
University of Miami
Affect and Emotion includes a variety of chapters by some of the most prominent scholars in the area of
emotions and leadership, as well as chapters by rising stars. These chapters chart the direction of future
research in affect and leadership in four main areas. First, several of these chapters make a convincing
argument that leaders use emotional labor and other forms of emotional displays to influence followers
and team members. Leaders may use emotional labor to manage relational identities, or to create favorable
impressions on followers and to create trust. Leaders' active emotional displays increase vision-related
performance and perception of transformational leadership. Second, one chapter reveals how emotions
play an important role in leadership at every level, from within-person to organization-wide leadership.
Leader's emotional labor plays an important role in several of these levels, with the exact method of
performing emotional labor varying by level. A second chapter also examines levels of leadership, with a
particular examination of the effects of leader emotional labor on close and distant leadership. Third,
several of the chapters examine emotions from the authentic leadership and positive leadership perspectives, and two of these chapters focus on how
psychological capital and authentic leadership skills help leaders be resilient and overcome obstacles. Fourth, two of the chapters show the role of
affect and friendship ties to leadership research. One of these chapters examines the need to develop psychometrically sound measures of affect and
friendship, whereas the other develops a model of how affect influences social network ties and informal leadership emergence. Taken together, these
chapters illustrate four important research trends in emotions and leadership that are likely to grow in importance in the coming years.