emotions

Examples of emotions in the following topics:

• Emotional Leadership

  • Strong emotional leadership depends on having high levels of emotional intelligence (EI).
  • Perceiving emotions – The ability to detect and decipher emotions in faces, pictures, voices, and cultural artifacts—including one's own emotions.
  • Perceiving emotions represents a basic aspect of emotional intelligence, as it makes all other processing of emotional information possible.
  • Understanding emotions – The ability to comprehend emotional language and to appreciate complicated relationships among emotions.
  • Managing emotions – The ability to regulate emotions in both ourselves and in others.

• How Emotion and Mood Influence Behavior

  • All moods can affect judgment, perception, and physical and emotional well-being.
  • However, both positive and negative emotions can distort the validity of a decision.
  • Job satisfaction can affect a person's mood and emotional state.
  • Managers are tasked not only with monitoring and controlling their own moods and emotions, but also with recognizing emotional issues in their subordinates.
  • Modeling emotional feelings and considering their behavioral implications are useful in preventing emotions from having a negative effect on the workplace.

• Defining Stress

  • Stress is defined in terms of its physical and physiological effects on a person, and can be a mental, physical, or emotional strain.
  • Stress is defined in terms of how it impacts physical and psychological health; it includes mental, physical, and emotional strain.
  • Stress-related disorders encompass a broad array of conditions, including psychological disorders (e.g., depression, anxiety, post-traumatic stress disorder) and other types of emotional strain (e.g., dissatisfaction, fatigue, tension), maladaptive behaviors (e.g., aggression, substance abuse), and cognitive impairment (e.g., concentration and memory problems).
  • Interpersonal Demands - Examples include: emotional issues (abrasive personalities, offensive co-workers), sexual harassment (directed mostly toward women), and poor leadership (lack of management experience, poor style, cannot handle having power).

• The Big Five Personality Traits

  • Extraversion - Extraversion describes energy, positive emotions, assertiveness, sociability, talkativeness, and the tendency to seek stimulation in the company of others.
  • Neuroticism - Neuroticism describes vulnerability to unpleasant emotions like anger, anxiety, depression, or vulnerability.
  • Neuroticism also refers to an individual's level of emotional stability and impulse control and is sometimes referred to as emotional stability.

• Overview of Negotiating Strategies

  • It is useful to understand the basic components of negotiation, the five negotiating styles, the three types of negotiation, and the way in which emotion affect the negotiation process.
  • Accommodating - This style is sensitive to the emotions of those being bargained with, and in touch with verbal and nonverbal signals.
  • The consideration of emotion may dramatically affect both the choice of a given style and the effectiveness of its execution.
  • Indeed, negative emotions psychology result in irrational and unpredictable behavior which dilute synergy and limit the potential of realizing a reasonable solution.
  • Inversely, positive emotions raise confidence and clear the mind, allowing for a clearer cooperative strategy to emerge and take hold.

• Methods of Excercising Influence

  • Heuristic persuasion appeals more towards emotions, habits, and other trial and error methods that are difficult to quantify.
  • Emotion - In contrast to the reasoned method, appealing to emotion is much more malleable and difficult to harness.
  • Appealing to emotion can include leveraging faith/traditions, advertising mediums that pertain to things people have passion for, presentation, creativity, imagination, pity, sex, violence, or any other empathy-based pursuits to garner a desired reaction.
  • They may overlap with the emotional component.
  • Body language is an interesting persuasive asset and liability, where our intent or emotions may be demonstrated externally without our awareness .

• Team Conflict Resolution and Management

  • A mediator from outside the team brings no emotional ties or preconceived ideas to the conflict and therefore can help the team identify a broader set of solutions that would be satisfactory to all.
  • This strategy often focuses on reducing the emotional charge and intensity of how the people speak to each other by emphasizing their shared goals and commitments.
  • This is more common when the stakes are perceived to be small or when the team member's emotional ties to the issue at hand are not particularly strong.

• Honesty in Leadership: Kouzes and Posner

  • Inspire vision: The vision is the emotional element of a company's mission statement, and this vision must be communicated honestly and with passion.
  • Encourage the heart: Leaders must nurture the emotional dimension of their relationships with followers.
  • This requires leaders to be in tune with their employees' emotions and concerns in a meaningful and honest way.

• Defining Decision Making

  • Time limits and personal emotions also play a role in the process of choosing between alternatives.
  • In addition, the more that is at stake the more emotions are likely to come into play, and this can distort one's judgment.

• Types of Communication: Verbal, Written, and Nonverbal

  • Oral communication describes the verbal exchange of information, emotions, thoughts, and perceptions.