How Does Culture Affect Emotions Influence

Impact of Culture on Emotion Regulation: Role of leaders
Introduction

Emotions are the natural reaction to any experience of our lives or in other words, emotions control our actions to a large extent. If we are happy, it gets reflected in our behavior with everyone around and the day, we feel irritable in the morning, the day ends at even worse terms. And one cannot leave emotions at home while going to the workplace. Now the question is – how much can we afford to act according to our so vulnerable emotions at workplace? And if not, what defense mechanism do we use to develop a control on that and act as per the situation demands? There has been a considerable research on emotions in psychology and its effects on our workplace behavior in

Understand emotions and the use of emotional knowledge;
4. How to manage emotions for emotional and intellectual development
Mayer further proposed that certain abilities are required to manage the emotions:
1. Able to handle both pleasant and unpleasant emotions equally
2. Thoughtful engagement with or detachment from a particular emotion, depending on its value
3. Mindfully observing emotions towards oneself and the others
4. Ability to manage emotions by offsetting negative emotions and strengthening positive ones.
There is another important perspective given by Morris and Feldman (1996) on emotional labor that is defined as "the effort, planning, and control needed to express organizationally desired emotion during interpersonal transactions" (p. 987). This perspective also acknowledges that emotions can be changed and controlled by an individual, and the broader social setting determines when that happens. Thus, there is enough theoretical backing to this proposition that ‘leaders and managers not only create the cultural setting of the organizations, but also create the channels of emotion expressions there’ and ‘leaders through emotional labor channelize the emotions of organizational members towards the goal