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Moods and emotions can affect people in various aspects, such as the feeling of happiness, health.

Emotion is defined as intense feelings that are directed at someone or something. They are reactions, not a trait. Moods are that feelings tend to be less intense than emotions and which lack a contextual stimulus. They are not directed at an object. The increasing importance of moods and emotions management of business management inside enterprises has caught the attention of managers . Through the comprehensive analysis of effective events theory, moods and emotions positive and negative effects on employees performance and organizational outcomes will be clarified. Then four reasonable ways will be put forward as suggestions for managers. In the last part of this essay some external factors will also be brought forth in order to make this subject more comprehensive and convincing. There are various theories in relation to emotions and moods. One of this is the AET. Affective events theory (AET Theory) is to understand emotions at work, which has been significantly helped by a model. It demonstrates that employees react emotionally to things that happen to them at work and this affect their job performance and satisfaction. Affective events theory puts emphasis on the structures, precipitating factor and consequence of emotional response of individuals during their work, and supports the idea that steady working environment features would lead to the appearance of positive or negative work events. Meanwhile, the experience of these work events can trigger emotional response of individuals, and the emotional response will further influence the attitudes and behaviors of individuals. There are two approaches that the emotional response can act on employees behaviors, one is to directly affect their behaviors, and the other is to indirectly affect their behaviors through influencing employees working attitudes. Another important factor is the effects of emotions and moods on job satisfaction and job performance. Two categories of behaviors that are different in nature are clarified by the affective events theory. One is called affect-driven behaviors, which are directly driven by emotional response, including the emotional response of frustration and disagreeable moods or next days coming late or absence just due to bad mood caused by managers criticism. The other category is called judgmentdriven behaviors, which are indirectly driven by emotional response, but employees working attitudes are influenced by emotional response and further drive their

behaviors. The second category is also called attitude-driven behaviors, which can explain that employees demission is not out of emotional impulsivity, but most likely for the accumulation of negative emotional experience for long, thus leading to the changes of their working attitudes, such as job satisfaction and organizational commitment. After giving careful consideration to their current working situation, employees will make general judgment about their job evaluation, for example, it will not benefit my future prospect then they will make their final decisions whether to leave or not. Therefore, the second category can reasonably interpret employees job satisfaction and better predict the demission behaviors than emotional response.

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