 Dear students, I welcome you in the course of leadership, emotional intelligence and the CN making. This is module number 267 and the topic of discussion is how emotion controls attention. We have to be careful in our perspective that emotions are not only there to effect our creative thinking and thinking patterns, they are also there to act and react based upon our focus, our attention. For this purpose there is a very famous theory that we need to talk about and that theory is known as effective events theory. In this theory we will be able to know how the emotions are in association with our attention and with our behaviors. For example, how we feel influences what we pay attention to and how we think, remember and make decisions. Now all these things are correlated, our feelings, our decision, our remembrance, our selective attention and perception are affecting. An event in the work environment triggers positive or negative emotional reactions and our main concern is effective events theory. It is said that personality and mood determine response intensity and emotions can influence a broad range of work variables. Now if we look at this context in a flow sheet diagram, it is said that our work environment which is a combination of characteristics of job, job demands and requirement for the emotional labor, these are linked with work events and the work events are the daily hassles and the daily uplifts. Here we have another context that is related to our personal disposition in which our personality mayors and our mood involve and all these things would be leading towards emotional reactions and our emotional reactions can be positive or negative. Whatever our emotional reactions create, they would be the source for either our job satisfaction or our higher performance. If we look at this in reverse, we will know that job satisfaction and job performance is eventually based upon our emotional context. Now if we talk about its implications, it is said that an emotional episode is actually the result of a series of emotional experiences triggered by a single event. It is also said that the current and past emotions affect job satisfaction. The third point is that emotional fluctuations over time create variations in job performance and obviously as we are saying that in a positive emotional context, we will go towards positive creativity, innovation, development and in a negative case, obviously the things are going to backfire. So it is said in the fourth point that the emotion-driven behaviors are typically brief and variable and for every person, the context, the group and the members of each person can be different. So both negative and positive emotions can distract workers and reduce job performance and obviously we will have to see which way we can make job performance better and which way we can provide rewards and compensations so that we can materialize the positive associations. Sometimes it is said that a happy worker is a productive worker but this hypothesis is also challenged and the resultant hypothesis would be that a productive worker deserves to be happy. So now we can relate the happiness and productivity to each other and see how we should take our rewards. Now remember that emotions provide variable insight into our behavior. So whether it is the behavior of the leader or the follower, we should understand their emotional context. And last but not the least point is that the emotions and the minor events that cause them should not be ignored because they are small things that can create a big problem for you. As we have in theory as well that they accumulate and if they accumulate then obviously they are going to have a disaster, they are going to have a problem, they are going to have an environment which is not technically favored by the organization. So we should think about all the things, all the perspectives. We should not take anything for granted and we should not ignore anything because they can create a big problem for us tomorrow. In this effective event theory we focused on what aspects they can have which can be the reason for our performance and job satisfaction. We should think about how we correlate our thinking and emotions and how we use a right vocabulary to demonstrate and to tell to even our own self what we are feeling and why we are feeling. Dear students, if we conclude all these things then remember that thoughts are connected with emotions. We will be able to think about the same thing that will be connected with our emotional state. And if it is a positive state then obviously our thought will be positive and if it is a negative state then obviously we will not be able to think constructively or positively. Thank you.