A volume in Research in Management (Sponsored by the Southern Management Association)Series Editors Linda L. Neider and Chester A. Schriesheim, University of MiamiAffect and Emotion includes a variety of chapters by some of the most prominent scholars in the area ofemotions and leadership, as well as chapters by rising stars. These chapters chart the direction of futureresearch in affect and leadership in four main areas. First, several of these chapters make a convincingargument that leaders use emotional labor and other forms of emotional displays to influence followersand team members. Leaders may use emotional labor to manage relational identities, or to create favorableimpressions on followers and to create trust. Leaders' active emotional displays increase vision-relatedperformance and perception of transformational leadership. Second, one chapter reveals how emotionsplay an important role in leadership at every level, from within-person to organization-wide leadership. Leader's emotional labor plays an important role in several of these levels, with the exact method ofperforming emotional labor varying by level. A second chapter also examines levels of leadership, with aparticular examination of the effects of leader emotional labor on close and distant leadership. Third, several of the chapters examine emotions from the authentic leadership and positive leadership perspectives, and two of these chapters focus on howpsychological capital and authentic leadership skills help leaders be resilient and overcome obstacles. Fourth, two of the chapters show the role ofaffect and friendship ties to leadership research. One of these chapters examines the need to develop psychometrically sound measures of affect andfriendship, whereas the other develops a model of how affect influences social network ties and informal leadership emergence. Taken together, thesechapters illustrate four important research trends in emotions and leadership that are likely to grow in importance in the coming years. | Affect and Emotion by Ronald H. Humphrey, Paperback | Indigo Chapters