CONNECTING LEVELS IN THE STUDY OF EMOTIONS IN ORGANIZATIONS

Ashkanasy has presented a model and review of multi-level analyses of emotions in organizations. In this paper, the strengths and shortcomings of Ashkanasy’s paper are discussed. Chief among the strengths are the analyses of core biological processes, the discussion of within versus between person analyses, and the distinction drawn between moods and discrete emotions. A limitation is the relative lack of process integrations among levels. The nature of such integrations and the difficulty in developing them are discussed briefly in this paper.