From defensive reasoning to innovation: how digital tools foster positive emotions in organizations

BMC Psychology

Table 6 The effect of role reversal

Workplace role	Virtual role	Purpose	Emotional effect	Effect
Staff	Bench-marker	Establish a typical positive stimulus	Stimulate positive emotions	Become a role model in the company
Staff	Exemplary	Inspire and form a social promotion role	Stimulate and promote positive emotions	Involve more people
Staff	Supporter	Inspire and form a social promotion role	Promote positive emotions	Involve more people
Staff	Innovation actor	Take the lead in innovation	Expand positive emotions	Demonstrate enterprise innovation practice for the first time
Employee, deputy general manager	Encourager	Lift individual isolation and encourage innovation	Channel negativity Promote positive emotions	Eliminate individual defensive reasoning and create a positive organizational climate
Director	Reverse model	Eliminate individual defensive reasoning	Channel negativity	Promote personal growth and reshape team cohesion
Director	Innovation incubator	Stimulate the innovative enthusiasm of employees	Expand positive emotions	Cultivate innovative teams to achieve innovative performance
Deputy general manager	Inspiration guider	Eliminate individual defensive reasoning and encourage employee innovation	Channel negative emotions Promote positive emotions	Improve team performance and gain innovative performance
General manager	Mentor leader	Form an open and dissipative self-organizing environment	Construct positive emotions	Promote staff growth, and increase team progress

ISSN: 2050-7283