You know how it goes: A traffic jam blocks your way to work. A rude driver swerves in front of your car and you spill that just-purchased café latte into your lap. You arrive late, in a lousy mood. From there, the day just goes downhill and your workplace performance falls to pieces.
Or does it? Everyone has bad mornings. But does a bad mood really color one's entire day and undermine productivity? Some people, after all, thrive on tension; for others, perhaps settling in to work helps them shake off the lousy mood they started with.
"I'm interested in what people bring with them to organizations," says Wharton management professor Nancy Rothbard. "In my experience, and in the experience of many others, people are not able to completely wall off and compartmentalize different parts of their lives. There is a spillover between the multiple roles that people inhabit."
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