Abstract

Organizations are dynamic entities, and such dynamism is reflected in the emergence of significant events. These events, be it positive or negative, can influence employees. However, there is little discussion about how they become meaningful and come to impact employees, which hinders the progress in the understanding of organizational behaviors. This paper addresses this gap by applying Affective Events Theory (AET) to further our understanding of how events in the workplace trigger influence employees’ workplace psychological well-being. More specifically, this paper studies the impact of positive and negative events on employees’ psychological wellbeing, accounting for the moderating effects of their personality traits and servant leadership. This paper contributes to our understanding of the impact of work events, personality and servant leadership in influencing employees’ psychological wellbeing by (a) testing the relationship between work events and employees’ psychological wellbeing; (b) identifying the moderating effects of personality and servant leadership.