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Anger Expression in Organizations: Insights from Social Neuroscience

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Anger is a common emotional response to perceived provocation by another person or entity. It can emerge from feelings of frustration and manifest itself episodically or chronically. Multiple brain areas are linked to the subjective experience and expression of anger, including the amygdala-hypothalamus-periaqueductal gray system, the frontal cortices, as well as the anterior cingulate cortices. Despite its frequent negative portrayal, and general view that it can cause serious impairment, anger remains a social emotion, which can serve adaptive purposes in organizational settings. Specifically, researchers in organizational behavior have recently focused on the benefits of moral anger (i.e., when anger arises from feelings of moral violations and actions to rectify the situation ensue) in optimizing organizational functioning. The following chapter examines anger in three parts: (1) defining anger and theoretical models of anger expression; (2) the positive and negative effects of anger expression in the workplace; and (3) ways in which anger can be used constructively in organizations. The overarching aim is to examine the construct of anger in an organizational context and to present evidence from research in organizational behavior, psychology, and cognitive neuroscience that supports the idea that anger, especially moral anger, expression in the workplace can lead to better individual and collective behaviors and serve to maintain ethical organizational practices.

Anybody can become angry—that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way—that is not within everybody’s power and is not easy.

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Ewusi Boisvert, E. (2020). Anger Expression in Organizations: Insights from Social Neuroscience. In: Martineau, J., Racine, E. (eds) Organizational Neuroethics. Advances in Neuroethics. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-27177-0_14

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