Chapter 4 Group Emotions and Group Outcomes: The Role of Group-Member Interactions

Collective efficacy as a mediator between cooperative group norms and group positive affect and team creativity

“…Group positive affect positively relates to team creativity during interactions among team members by facilitating creative information processing (Chi, Chung, & Tsai, 2011;Rhee, 2007;Shin, 2014;Tsai et al, 2012). When a team displays a high level of positive affect, team members are prone to perceive their work environments as pleasant.…”

Empirical View on Changes in Team Creativity in line with Team Affect and Team Leader’s Network Structures

“…However, the team leader"s centrality would not effectively operate under negative group affective tone, because negative group affective tone might constrain the constructive social interactions within the team [24]. On the other hand, the team leader may select structural holes within a team and gain the concurrent informational and power benefits from nonredundant ties (Burt 199;Gargiulo and Benassi 2000).…”

“…In contrast, the influence of negative group affective tone is a burning issue. Rhee [24] suggested that negative group affective tone might be harmful for team creativity, in that it would constrain the constructive social interactions and collapse morale. On the other hand, some studies have argued that negative group affective tone might make members identify present potential problems more clearly and might use problem-solving strategies more effectively [11,28,30].…”

Sensemaking in Virtual Teams: The Impact of Emotions and Support Tools on Team Mental Models and Team Performance

“…Yet, as Maitlis et al (2008) aptly noted, emotion has always been hinted at as the motivation behind sensemaking in all its stages: the ignition, the interpretation and the enactment. Recently, Rhee (2007) has stated that the mechanisms behind the influence of group emotion on performance are still mostly unexamined. In this theoretical paper we suggest that sensemaking and group mental models is one of the mechanisms that link between group emotions and performance.…”

“…Emotions can serve as an intrinsic cue about how one should judge a situation (Schwartz & Clore, 1983); emotions thus act as a source of information (Albarracin & Kumkale, 2003). Schwartz and Clore (1983;2007) explicitly identified the feeling-asinformation model, which suggests that people interpret the environment in part by reading their own affective states. Emotions influence not only how people interpret the environment but also the type of information processing tactics they employ (Chartrand, van Baaren & Bargh, 2006) and the decisions they make (Forgas, 1998).…”