ABSTRACT
This chapter examines the nature and extent of emotions experienced by executives in their daily work-lives. It explores the relationship between the emotions experienced by executives and their daily work activities. Emotion and cognition are viewed as interrelated processes. Environmental stimuli produce evaluative thoughts that can be associated with a specific emotional arousal pattern. Defining emotions or emotional experience has always been a problematic task. Thus, any attempt to observe or measure a person’s emotional arousal must recognize that an emotion is a complexly organized functional pattern that is somewhat modifiable through learning. With the conceptualization of emotions in mind, the differentiation of emotions from affect, feeling, and mood is less problematic. A person’s emotional responses may be influenced by other kinds of bodily states and persistent moods. In order to examine broader patterns of relationships among emotions and their eliciting conditions, a factor analysis was performed for each executive.
