ASSIGNMENT

NAME: SAIF IFTIKHAR

ROLL N0: 161262

SUBMITTED TO: MAM SADIA SHAUKAT

TOPIC; AFFECTIVE EVENTS THEORY

BBA 5TH
 AFFECTIVE EVENTS THEORY

Basically, affective event theory is a psychological model designed and they are connected with
the feeling and the emotions with the workplace and the job satisfaction and behavior.

Affective events theory is a theory of affect in the workplace. In addition to focusing on affect,
it behavior, attitudes, and other critical psychological constructs to explain job behavior. The
theory primarily builds on the already established cognitive appraisal models and has gathered
support from many areas of study in the field of emotions to create a more surrounded theory
of work behavior.
Affective events theory proposes that there are two paths to job behaviors, both of which are
at least partially influenced by affective reactions to events at work. However, cognitive
processes play an essential role in the creation of these reactions. The theory builds on past
theoretical successes while also adding a few new elements in explaining job behavior.

Assumptions of Affective Events Theory

Affective events theory makes several assumptions about the workplace and the constructs
that describe people’s reactions to events that happen there. The first is that job satisfaction is
different from affect. Nevertheless, affective event theory also assumes that affect contributes
to job satisfaction and can be used to help predict job performance. Related to that, affected
event theory assumes that affect influences performance, typically in a detrimental way
because emotion is assumed to draw resources from other areas, such as cognitive processing,
motivation, and attention, among others.

The Structure of Affective Events Theory

Affective events theory proposes the following model for predicting workplace behavior. Work
environment features precede work events and those work events cause affective reactions.
Dispositions influence the causal transition from work events to affective reactions, as well as
the affective reactions themselves. Those affective reactions then influence affect-driven
behaviors, as well as work attitudes. Work attitudes are also influenced by the work
environment. Work attitudes in turn influence judgment-driven behaviors.

From that model, one can see that affective event theory proposes two different paths to
behavior, both of which are preceded by affective reactions. Affect-driven behaviors stem
directly from affective reactions to events in the workplace. Judgment-driven behaviors, on the
other hand, are arrived at by a longer route, going from affective reactions to work attitudes
and then to behavior. However, the starting point for affective event theory is the event. Within
affective event theory, an event is defined as a change in the environmental circumstances that
one is currently experiencing. That change then elicits affect, which then can influence behavior
directly or go through job attitudes to influence behavior indirectly.