Bonnie Hayden Cheng

(Rotman PHD ‘13) is an Assistant Professor of Organizational Behaviour & Human Resource Management and a Research Fellow of the Centre for Leadership & Innovation at Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Julie M. Mccarthy is a Professor of Organizational Behaviour & HR Management in the Department of Management, University of Toronto Scarborough and holds a cross-appointment to the OB/HR Management area at the Rotman School of Management. This article summarizes their paper, “Understanding the Dark and Bright Sides of Anxiety: A Theory of Workplace Anxiety”, which was published in the Journal of Applied Psychology (2018). This paper can be downloaded online.