Fostering Positive Emotions: Shifting Organizations' Cultures to Value Well- Being.

Organizations that focus upon the development of positive emotions, from the individual to the organizational culture level, improve employee well-being, engagement and attitudes, as well as experience performance payoffs by reducing employee withdrawal, burnout, absenteeism, and risky out-of-work behavior (Barsade & Gibson, 2007; Barsade & O'Neil, 2014; O'Neill & Rothbard, 2017; Tsui, 2010; 2013; Rynes et al 2012; Van Looy, 2010). Yet there are various organizational countervailing forces, such as financial pressures, geographic distance, performance pressures, and the belief that anger leads to better performance, that can prevent employees from experiencing positive emotions and enhancing them in others. In this symposia, we examine the influence of the tensions between these countervailing forces and the building of positive affect from the individual-level to the organizational level of cultures of companionate love. We also seek to provide solutions, such as "micro-moments" and gratitude, through which organizational members at all levels of the organization can help promote positive emotions and gain their associated benefits. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]