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Questions 1.
What factors do you think make some organizations ineffective at managing emotions?
2.
Do you think the strategic use and display of emotions serve to protect employees, or does covering your true emotions at work lead to more problems than it solves?
3.
Have you ever worked where emotions were used as part of a management style? Describe the advantages and disadvantages of this approach in your experience.
4.
Research shows that acts of co-workers (37 percent) and management (22 percent) cause more negative emotions for employees than do acts of customers (7 percent).130 What can Laura’s company do to change its emotional climate?
Sources: A. Kreamer, “Go Ahead—Cry at Work,” Time (April 4, 2010), www.time.com; J. S. Lerner and K. Shonk, “How Anger Poisons Decision Making,” Harvard Business Review (September 2010), p. 26; and J. Perrone and M. H. Vickers, “Emotions as Strategic Game in a Hostile Workplace: An Exemplar Case,” Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal 16, no. 3 (2004), pp. 167–178.
CASE INCIDENT 2 Can You Read Emotions from Faces?
We mentioned previously that some researchers—the psychologist Paul Ekman is the best known—have studied whether facial expressions reveal true emotions. These researchers have distinguished real smiles (so-called Duchenne smiles, named after French physician Guillaume Duchenne) from “fake” smiles. Duchenne found genuine smiles raised not only the corners of the mouth (easily faked) but also cheek and eye muscles (much more difficult to fake). So, one way to determine whether someone is genuinely happy or amused is to look at the muscles around the upper cheeks and eyes—if the person’s eyes are smiling or twinkling, the smile is genuine. Ekman and his associates have developed similar methods to detect other emotions, such as anger, disgust, and distress. According to Ekman, the key to identifying real emotions is to focus on micro-expressions, or those facial muscles we cannot easily manipulate.
Dan Hill has used these techniques to study the facial expressions of CEOs and found they vary dramatically not only in their Duchenne smiles but also in the 124125degree to which they display positive versus negative facial expressions. The accompanying table shows Hill’s analysis of the facial expressions of some prominent male executives:
Jeff Bezos, Amazon 51% positive
Warren Buffet, Berkshire Hathaway 69% positive
Michael Dell, Dell Computers 47% positive
Larry Ellison, Oracle 0% positive
Bill Gates, Microsoft 73% positive
Steve Jobs, Apple 48% positive
Phil Knight, Nike 67% positive
Donald Trump, The Trump Organization16% positive
It’s interesting to note that these individuals, all of whom are successful in various ways, have such different levels of positive facial expressions. It also raises the question: is a smile from Larry Ellison worth more than a smile from Bill Gates?
Questions 1.
Most research suggests we are not very good at detecting fake emotions, and we think we’re much better at it than we are. Do you believe training would improve your ability to detect emotional displays in others?
2.
Do you think the information in this case could help you tell whether someone’s smile is genuine?
3.
Is your own impression of the facial expressions of the eight business leaders consistent with what the researcher found? If not, why do you think your views might be at odds with his? 4.
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One research study found people’s ratings of the positive affect displayed in CEO’s faces had very little correlation to their company’s profits. Does that suggest to you that Hill’s analysis is immaterial?
5.
Assuming you could become better at detecting the real emotions in facial expressions, do you think it would help your career? Why or why not?
Sources: Based on P. Ekman, Telling Lies: Clues to Deceit in the Marketplace, Politics, and Marriage (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2009); D. Jones, “It’s Written All Over Their Faces,” USA Today (February 25, 2008), pp. 1B–2B; and N. O. Rule and N. Ambady, “The Face of Success,” Psychological Science 19, no. 2 (2008), pp. 109–111.
ENDNOTES 1.
See, for instance, C. D. Fisher and N. M. Ashkanasy, “The Emerging Role of Emotions in Work Life: An Introduction,” Journal of Organizational Behavior, Special Issue 2000, pp. 123–129; N. M. Ashkanasy, C. E. J. Hartel, and W. J. Zerbe (eds.), Emotions in the Workplace: Research, Theory, and Practice (Westport, CT: Quorum Books, 2000); N. M. Ashkanasy and C. S. Daus, “Emotion in the Workplace: The New Challenge for Managers,” Academy of Management Executive (February 2002), pp. 76–86; and N. M. Ashkanasy, C. E. J. Hartel, and C. S. Daus, “Diversity and Emotion: The New Frontiers in Organizational Behavior Research,” Journal of Management 28, no. 3 (2002), pp. 307–338.
2.
See, for example, L. L. Putnam and D. K. Mumby, “Organizations, Emotion and the Myth of Rationality,” in S. Fineman (ed.), Emotion in Organizations (Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 1993), pp. 36–57; and J. Martin, K. Knopoff, and C. Beckman, “An Alternative to Bureaucratic Impersonality and Emotional Labor: Bounded Emotionality at the Body Shop,” Administrative Science Quarterly (June 1998), pp. 429–469.
3.
B. E. Ashforth and R. H. Humphrey, “Emotion in the Workplace: A Reappraisal,” Human Relations (February 1995), pp. 97–125.
4.
S. G. Barsade and D. E. Gibson, “Why Does Affect Matter in Organizations?” Academy of Management Perspectives (February 2007), pp. 36– 59.
5.
See N. H. Frijda, “Moods, Emotion Episodes and Emotions,” in M. Lewis and J. M. Haviland (eds.), Handbook of Emotions (New York: Guilford Press, 1993), pp. 381–403.
6.
H. M. Weiss and R. Cropanzano, “Affective Events Theory: A Theoretical Discussion of the Structure, Causes and Consequences of Affective Experiences at Work,” in B. M. Staw and L. L. Cummings (eds.), Research in Organizational Behavior, vol. 18 (Greenwich, CT: JAI Press, 1996), pp. 17–19.
7.
See P. Ekman and R. J. Davidson (eds.), The Nature of Emotions: Fundamental Questions (Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1994).
8.
Frijda, “Moods, Emotion Episodes and Emotions,” p. 381.
9.
See Ekman and Davidson (eds.), The Nature of Emotions.
10.
See, for example, P. Ekman, “An Argument for Basic Emotions,” Cognition and Emotion (May/July 1992), pp. 169–200; C. E. Izard, “Basic Emotions, Relations Among Emotions, and Emotion–Cognition Relations,” Psychological Bulletin (November 1992), pp. 561–565; and J. L. Tracy and R. W. Robins, “Emerging Insights into the Nature and Function of Pride,” Current Directions in Psychological Science 16, no. 3 (2007), pp. 147–150.
11.
R. C. Solomon, “Back to Basics: On the Very Idea of ‘Basic Emotions,’” Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour 32, no. 2 (June 2002), pp. 115–144.
12.
R. Descartes, The Passions of the Soul (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1989).
13.
P. Ekman, Emotions Revealed: Recognizing Faces and Feelings to Improve Communication and Emotional Life (New York: Times Books/Henry Holt and Co., 2003).
14. P. R. Shaver, H. J. Morgan, and S. J. Wu, “Is Love a ‘Basic’ Emotion?” Personal Relationships 3, no. 1 (March 1996), pp. 81–96.
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P. R. Shaver, H. J. Morgan, and S. J. Wu, “Is Love a ‘Basic’ Emotion?” Personal Relationships 3, no. 1 (March 1996), pp. 81–96.
15.
Ibid.
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17.
Solomon, “Back to Basics.”
18.
Weiss and Cropanzano, “Affective Events Theory,” pp. 20–22.
19.
Cited in R. D. Woodworth, Experimental Psychology (New York: Holt, 1938).
20.
D. Watson, L. A. Clark, and A. Tellegen, “Development and Validation of Brief Measures of Positive and Negative Affect: The PANAS Scales,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology (1988), pp. 1063–1070.
21.
A. Ben-Ze’ev, The Subtlety of Emotions (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2000), p. 94.
22.
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23.
A. Ben-Ze’ev, The Subtlety of Emotions, p. 99.
24.
J. T. Cacioppo and W. L. Gardner, “Emotion,” in Annual Review of Psychology, vol. 50 (Palo Alto, CA: Annual Reviews, 1999), pp. 191–214.
25.
D. Holman, “Call Centres,” in D. Holman, T. D. Wall, C. Clegg, P. Sparrow, and A. Howard (eds.), The Essentials of the New Work Place: A Guide to the Human Impact of Modern Working Practices (Chichester, UK: Wiley, 2005), pp. 111–132.
26.
M. Eid and E. Diener, “Norms for Experiencing Emotions in Different Cultures: Inter- and International Differences,” Journal of Personality & Social Psychology 81, no. 5 (2001), pp. 869–885.
27.
S. Oishi, E. Diener, and C. Napa Scollon, “Cross-Situational Consistency of Affective Experiences Across Cultures,” Journal of Personality & Social Psychology 86, no. 3 (2004), pp. 460–472.
28.
Eid and Diener, “Norms for Experiencing Emotions in Different Cultures.”
29.
L. M. Poverny and S. Picascia, “There Is No Crying in Business,” Womensmedia.com, October 20, 2009, www.womensmedia.com/new/Crying-at-Work.shtml.
30.
A. R. Damasio, Descartes’ Error: Emotion, Reason, and the Human Brain (New York: Quill, 1994).
31.
Ibid.
32.
J. Haidt, “The New Synthesis in Moral Psychology,” Science 316 (May 18, 2007), pp. 998, 1002; I. E. de Hooge, R. M. A. Nelissen, S. M. Breugelmans, and M. Zeelenberg, “What is Moral about Guilt? Acting ‘Prosocially’ at the Disadvantage of Others,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 100 (2011), pp. 462–473; and C. A. Hutcherson and J. J. Gross, “The Moral Emotions: A Social-Functionalist Account of Anger, Disgust, and Contempt,” Journal of Personality and Social Psychology 100 (2011), pp. 719–737. 33.
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33.
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34.
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35.
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36.
Watson, Mood and Temperament, p. 100.
37.
J. A. Fuller, J. M. Stanton, G. G. Fisher, C. Spitzmüller, S. S. Russell, and P. C. Smith, “A Lengthy Look at the Daily Grind: Time Series Analysis of Events, Mood, Stress, and Satisfaction,” Journal of Applied Psychology 88, no. 6 (December 2003), pp. 1019–1033.
38.
See “Monday Blahs,” May 16, 2005, www.ashidome.com/blogger/housearrest.asp?c=809&m=5&y=2005.
39.
A. M. Isen, “Positive Affect as a Source of Human Strength,” in L. G. Aspinwall and U. Staudinger (eds.), The Psychology of Human Strengths (Washington, DC: American Psychological Association, 2003), pp. 179–195.
40.
Watson, Mood and Temperament.
41.
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42.
M. Lavidor, A. Weller, and H. Babkoff, “How Sleep Is Related to Fatigue,” British Journal of Health Psychology 8 (2003), pp. 95–105; and J. J. Pilcher and E. Ott, “The Relationships Between Sleep and Measures of Health and Well-Being in College Students: A Repeated Measures Approach,” Behavioral Medicine 23 (1998), pp. 170–178.
43.
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44.
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45.
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47.
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48.
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