Topic: Emotional Intelligence, Leadership,
Publication: Human Relations
Article: Negative emotions in supervisory relationships: the role of relational models.
Blogger: LitDigger
The researcher found some support for an exploratory model that If you feel negative emotions resulting from your relationship
with your boss, a recent article by Game (2008) provides an interesting
theoretical explanation. The
author proposes that the employee’s attachment style has something to do with
it. Attachment?!?! Yes, you might remember this from your
developmental psych class… secure, anxious-ambivalence, avoidance…ring a bell?
investigated the possibility that various emotional reactions in employees may
be attributed to differences in how supervisory behavior is interpreted by employees. Such interpretations may be affected
by employees’ long history of attachment relationships over their lifetime
AND/OR their attachment style regarding their relationship with their
supervisor. The study’s model wasn’t
entirely supported, but there were some findings that lead us to conclude that
further research investigating the relational context of employee-supervisor
relationships is worthwhile if we want to learn more about the nature of
employees’ negative emotions.
