Anger Expression and Performance: Testing Moderation Models

Abstract

It was a correlational study with 108 leaders and 176 subordinates from four public and mixed-economy companies, in which the effect of anger perception and leader's power on subordinate´s performance has been tested, moderated by two subordinates' personal traits (conscientiousness and agreeableness). The theoretical basis was the EASI (Emotion as Social Information) model. The subordinates answered three instruments: a) personal traits of agreeableness and conscientiousness; b) Leader's Global Social Power Measure; and c) Leader's Emotional Expression Perception Scale. Leaders responded to the subordinates Task Performance Measure. The results indicated that only conscientiousness moderated the relationship between the leader anger perception and the subordinate´s performance.

KEYWORDS:
Anger´s emotion; Leadership; Personal Traits; Performance