| dc.description.abstract | This thesis aimed to explore employees’ emotional change-experiences from a contextual, and
bottom-up, point of view as they evolved over time, from anticipation to retrospection; as well
as to explore specific negative emotional change-experiences in depth. This followed the
identification of two limitations which pointed to the limited acknowledgement of context in
the organizational, managerial and change literature. The two limitations were: “a one-sided
and biased perspective on negative emotional experiences” and “emotional experiences
portrayed as predictable reactions that occur in distinct stages over time”. Furthermore, the
present thesis also emerged out of the fact that there is a shortage of contributions in this
literature that have empirically investigated the emotional anticipation of change and/or the
evolving emotional change-experience from anticipation to retrospection. (...). | en |
