Influence of Emotional Experience in Decision-making Processes

This bachelor thesis deals with an exploration of emotional experience influence on individuals' decision-making proces in particular companies where managerial posts are occupied by these individuals. The main purpose of this thesis is to find out whether the emotional characteristic affects some individual's decisions in emotionally burdensome situations and what impact these decisions could be on a company situation as a whole. The bachelor thesis is divided into two parts. The first part deals with a general and a theoretical knowledge about emotions, emotional experience, emotional expressions and influence of emotions on cognitive and psychological function of an individual. It also pays attention to finding and solving of the problem and decision-making processes. The substantial part of this section creates an analysis of emotion influence on individual decision-making processes. The second part of the bachelor thesis pays attention to detecting and processing the data of the selected companies. The analysis of the collected data finds out an emotional characteristics of selected persons occupying managerial posts. This part investigates a proces of decision associated with higher rate of an emotional burden, behaviour of selected persons in emotionally burdensome situations and a possible impact of these persons' decisions on a company situation as a whole