Self-Immanent Pride as the Underlying Source of Destructive Managerial Anger: a Conceptual Proposition

Abstract

Drawing on religious thought and critically examining psychological approaches, this paper introduces and defines the concept of self-immanent pride, a phenomenon conceived as the source of destructive managerial anger. To untangle the complexity of self-immanent pride and its anger-engendering quality, this paper ascertains the prototypical forms of self-immanent pride, elaborates on its characteristics, and posits chronically inflated self-esteem as a path from self-immanent pride to destructive managerial anger.