A Team With a Shared Lousy Temper Is Better at Mental Tasks

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101115161722.htm

ScienceDaily (Dec. 6, 2010) — Managers who want their team to perform better should let employees express negative emotions. Teams who share bad feelings solve complicated problems better, share more information with each other and have a greater solidarity, concludes Dutch researcher Annefloor Klep.

Many organisations want their employees to regulate negative emotions and only show positive ones. However, from the experiments of Annefloor Klep it has become apparent that this isn't always the right strategy. She found out that teams which share positive emotions are better at creative tasks; however, analytical tasks are handled better if a team shares negative emotions.

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