Extending interactionist principles and targeting situational specificity of trait–performance
linkages, trait activation theory (TAT) posits personality traits are expressed as valued work …

In teams, some combinations of people work together better than others. A large body of
literature with a rich history suggests that the configuration of team member attributes, called …

We examine the daily sleep of leaders as an antecedent to daily abusive supervisory
behavior and work unit engagement. Drawing from ego depletion theory, our theoretical …

Leveraging the wealth of research insights generated over the past 25 years, we develop a
model of emotional contagion in organizational life. We begin by defining emotional …

We introduce the concept of team entrepreneurial passion, a team-level construct
representing the level of shared intense positive feelings for a collective and central team …

Grounded in a social functional perspective, this article examines the conditions under
which group affect influences group functioning. Using meta-analysis, the authors leverage …

Transformational leadership is generally considered helpful for team functioning. However,
the social dynamics underlying the benefits of transformational leadership remain elusive to …

Over two decades of research has indicated that group affect is an important factor that
shapes group processes and outcomes. We review and synthesize research on group affect …

Research on charismatic leadership has been criticized for the ambiguity of its central
construct. Attempts to define and measure charisma have frequently treated it as a complex …

Research has established that groups are pervaded by feelings. But group emotion
research within organizational science has suffered in recent years from a lack of …