Mouna El Mansouri

@inproceedings{el_mansouri_1927,

title = {How employees adapt to change prompted by COVID-19: importance of discrete emotions and proactivity},

author = {Mouna El Mansouri and Laurie J. Barclay and Tina Kiefer},

url = {https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2021.12429abstract},

issn = {Academy of Management Proceedings},

year  = {2021},

date = {2021-08-01},

booktitle = {Academy of Management Proceedings},

address = {Virtual},

abstract = {The COVID-19 pandemic has initiated unprecedented organizational change. Whereas the organizational change literature has focused on how employees reactively respond to planned strategic change efforts, the COVID-19 pandemic has thrust employees into an active role in which they must adapt to the rapidly evolving demands of their environment. Drawing on appraisal theories, we argue that employees can appraise how the changes prompted by COVID-19 have impacted the meaningfulness of their work and their work effectiveness. In turn, these appraisals can elicit positive and negative discrete emotions, which can provide employees with guidance on how to navigate the opportunities and challenges in their work environment. We test our predictions using a three-wave survey design (N = 402) during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results indicate that COVID-19 related changes that increased the meaningfulness of work elicited pride whereas changes that reduced work effectiveness elicited frustration and anxiety. In turn, these discrete emotions differentially prompted promotion-oriented and prevention-oriented proactive behaviors. Importantly, both promotion-oriented and prevention-oriented proactive behaviors enhanced employees' subsequent adaptivity to change. Our findings provide insight into how employees can actively respond to change related to the COVID-19 pandemic, including how they can self-initiate changes to their jobs in response to rapid change in their environment, how discrete emotions (i.e., pride, anxiety, and frustration) can differentially propel proactive behaviors, how negative emotions may prompt behaviors that can enhance adaptivity (rather than being dysfunctional for change), and how both promotion and prevention-oriented proactive behaviors can enhance employees' adaptivity to change.},

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@inproceedings{el_mansouri_1928,

title = {The Impact of Daily Individual Proactive Behavior on Working Memory},

author = {Mouna El Mansouri and Karoline Strauss and Doris Fay and Julia Smith},

url = {https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.14033abstract},

issn = {Academy of Management Proceedings},

year  = {2020},

date = {2020-08-01},

booktitle = {Academy of Management Proceedings},

address = {Virtual},

abstract = {Prior literature has hinted to costs of proactive behavior on individuals' mental energy and resources. Yet, no studies have explored the impact of proactivity on cognitive resources or its mechanisms. Assuming that attentional resources are finite and need to be allocated between competing demands, we propose that individual task proactivity has a negative impact on end-of-day working memory (WM) performance via hindrance stressors because of intrusive thoughts occupying cognitive resources. On the other hand, given that proactivity is primarily geared towards increasing effectiveness and progress in core tasks, we also consider the potential positive impact of such proactive behavior on end-of-day WM performance via perceived work goal progress freeing up cognitive resources. We conducted a daily diary study (n = 163, k = 701) over five consecutive days. Using multilevel modeling, we found that proactivity was positively associated with hindrance stressors which in turn have a negative impact on end-of-day WM performance. We also found that proactivity was positively associated with perceived work goal progress which in turn had a positive impact on end-of-day WM performance. Our findings suggest that higher levels of daily proactive behavior are associated with impaired executive functioning, supporting the resource intensive nature of proactivity."},

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@inproceedings{el_mansouri_1930,

title = {Proactive but Forgetful? Impact of Daily Individual Proactive Behavior on Working Memory},

author = {Mouna El Mansouri and Karoline Strauss and Doris Fay and Julia Smith},

url = {https://journals.aom.org/doi/abs/10.5465/AMBPP.2020.14033abstract},

issn = {Academy of Management Proceedings},

year  = {2019},

date = {2019-08-01},

booktitle = {Academy of Management Proceedings},

address = {Boston},

abstract = {Prior literature has hinted to costs of proactive behavior on individuals' mental energy and resources. Yet, no studies have explored the impact of proactivity on cognitive resources or its mechanisms. Assuming that attentional resources are finite and need to be allocated between competing demands, we propose that individual task proactivity has a negative impact on end-of-day working memory (WM) performance via hindrance stressors because of intrusive thoughts occupying cognitive resources. On the other hand, given that proactivity is primarily geared towards increasing effectiveness and progress in core tasks, we also consider the potential positive impact of such proactive behavior on end-of-day WM performance via perceived work goal progress freeing up cognitive resources. We conducted a daily diary study (n = 163, k = 701) over five consecutive days. Using multilevel modeling, we found that proactivity was positively associated with hindrance stressors which in turn have a negative impact on end-of-day WM performance. We also found that proactivity was positively associated with perceived work goal progress which in turn had a positive impact on end-of-day WM performance. Our findings suggest that higher levels of daily proactive behavior are associated with impaired executive functioning, supporting the resource intensive nature of proactivity."},

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