The Affective Dimension of People Management: the Influence of Affective Work Environment on the Nature and Level of Employees’ Performance.

EasyChair Preprint 5705

Abstract

The study of job performance within organizations is one of the most relevant topics for the field of management and especially human resources management. There is some consensus among the conceptual models proposed over the last decades for the construct of job performance about the importance to encompass components linked to the technical requirements and behaviors of a more social nature in support of other individuals and/or the organization.

A holistic view of job performance entails the challenge of adopting models of multidimensional nature to define its antecedents and consequents. In line with this concern, we have seen emerging a new paradigm in the field of organizational behavior, based on a growing acknowledge of the importance of affects in the life of organizations. Likewise, in this study it is proposed a model closely matching the affective events theory (AET) to analyze the influence of affective dimensions to describe ad explain individual differences on the nature and level of performance. The study adopted a correlational design and was based on data gathered from a sample made up of 393 employees and their supervisors, working in nine organizations from different economic sectors. The data analysis approach applied principles from structural equation modeling (SEM). Results show evidence that emotional energy caused by the affective work environment, as well as the affective components of work attitudes - organizational commitment and trust in managers and colleagues, have a substantial and significant effect on the two performance criteria.

Keyphrases: AET model, Affective organizational attitudes, Affective work environment, Personality, Task Performance, organizational citizenship behaviours, psychological climate

@booklet{EasyChair:5705,
  author    = {Carlos Botelho},
  title     = {The Affective Dimension of People Management: the Influence of Affective Work Environment on the Nature and Level of Employees’ Performance.},
  howpublished = {EasyChair Preprint 5705},
  year      = {EasyChair, 2021}}